Biology and Medicine Panel (General Research Fund and Other Funding Schemes for Individual Research)
( as at 13 November 2023 )
( as at 13 November 2023 )
Member | Sphere of Interest |
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Chairman | |
Professor Hongtao Yu* | Interests in combining cell biological, biochemical, and biophysical methods; to understand cellular mechanisms governing genomic stability at the molecular and atomic levels |
Deputy Panel Chairman | |
Professor Xiao-fan Wang* | Interests in surgery, elucidation of molecular nature and signaling mechanisms associated with the initiation of cellular senescence and development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of various types of human cancer |
Members | |
Professor Seth Blackshaw* | Interests in neuronal development and regeneration, hypothalamic regulation of behavior |
Professor Daniel Bressington* | Interests in multimorbidity in people with severe mental illness, developing/testing psychosocial interventions to improve mental health and mental health literacy/stigma |
Professor Marc Cadotte* | Interests in ecological and evolutionary mechanisms generating patterns of species diversity and applying the understanding to conservation issues, community ecology, biology invasions, evolution, biodiversity, plant ecology, experiments and ecosystem function |
Professor Patrick Yizhi Cai* | Interests in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Immunology and Microbiology |
Professor Paul Kay-sheung Chan | Interests in tumour virology, human respiratory viruses and microbiome |
Professor Stephen Lam Chan | Interests in hepatobiliary cancers, pancreatic cancer and neuroendocrine tumor |
Professor Meng Chen* | Interests in phytochrome signaling, nuclear organization, spatial genome reorganization, nucleus-to-plastid signaling and especially the signaling mechanisms by the photoreceptor and thermosensor phytochrome B |
Professor Wei Chen* | Interests in Systems biology, Functional and medical genomics, Bioinformatics, Precision medicine and individualized therapy |
Professor Zhengming Chen* | Interests in the environmental and genetic causes of chronic disease, evidence-based medicine and evaluation of widely practicable treatments for chronic diseases (such as IHD, stroke and cancer) as well as efficient strategies for chronic disease control in developing countries |
Professor Ying Cheong* | Interests in reproductive medicine & surgery, biology of endometrium and endometrial associated pathology |
Professor Hongbo Chi* | Interests in Immunometabolism, T cell biology and systems immunology |
Professor Zheng Dong* | Interests in molecular mechanism of cell injury/death, its protection and subsequent regeneration, response of kidney and cancer cells/tissues to pathological conditions of hypoxia/ischemia, metabolic stress, and DNA damage, cell death, cell cycle, autophagy, mitochondria, and epigenetic regulation |
Professor Sam El-Osta* | Interests in understanding the roles of specific transcriptional components in the regulation of metabolic memory and cardiac disease and further extend our understanding of gene silencing events associated with genomic methylation in pre-clinical models and human populations |
Professor Ian Everall* | Interests in psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience |
Professor James Fawcett* | Interests in repairing the damaged nervous system |
Professor Dean W. Felsher* | Interests in investigating oncogenes initiate and sustain tumorigenesis |
Professor Sandy Feng* | Interests in solid organ transplantation, transplant immunology/tolerance, cirrhosis and associated complications including hepatocellular carcinoma, and clinical trials related to organ transplantation and including cellular therapie |
Professor Jennifer Grandis* | Interests in head and neck cancer, signal transduction, precision medicine |
Professor Tilmann Harder* | Interests in Chemical Ecology of planktonic microorganisms |
Professor John Cijiang He* | Interests in diabetes, HIB/AIDS, kidney, signal transduction and systems biology |
Professor Jufang He | Interests in nervous system, sensory systems, hearing, hippocampus, thalamus, entorhinal cortex, auditory system, neuroplasticity, memory encoding, thalamocortical pathway, auditory learning, tinnitus, technolohies for neuzoscience, ultrasound, brain- machine interface, learning and memory, dementia, depressine |
Professor Ladd Johnson* | Interests in marine ecology and invasion biology |
Professor Yibin Kang* | Interests in cancer metastasis, cancer stem cell, tumor-stromal interactions |
Professor Arthur Yu-Shin Kim* | Interests in AIDS and HIV infection, Hepatitis B virus (HBV), Hepatitis C virus (HCV), HIV / HCV coinfection, Immunocompromised patient, Immunology, Substance abuse and Travel medicine |
Professor Timothy Kwok | Interests in Prevention strategies and psycho-social interventions for dementia |
Doctor Jessica CF Kwok* | Interests in perineuronal nets; plasticity; glycosaminoglycans; extracellular matrix; spinal cord injury; memory and ageing |
Professor Andrew Lever* | Interests in retroviruses and rotaviruses, pathogen biology and evolution, gene transfer and gene therapy |
Professor Anthony Ho-Ling Liu* | Interests in develop and optimize advanced MR neuroimaging methods for improving diagnosis, treatment planning and evaluation of early treatment response of tumors |
Professor Rui Hai Liu* | Interests in diet and cancer, the effects of functional foods and bioactive compounds on chronic disease risks; specifically including health benefits of antioxidants/phytochemicals in fruits, vegetables and whole grains; food genomics and functional foods for disease prevention and health promotion targeted at cancers, aging, and inflammatory diseases; and natural products and herbal formulations for antiviral activity |
Professor William Weijia Lu | Interests in the bioengineering, design, development and evaluation of surgical and medical implant and devices, clinical trials of medical device and biomaterials, mechanisms and treatment of bone and joint degeneration diseases |
Professor Nancy Kwan Man | Interests in liver transplation of graft injury and cancer recuurence, inflammation, immunology and cancer, molecular imaging in cancer research and liver graft injury, development of pharmaceutical treatments for liver cancer metastasis and recurrence, development of small animal models for liver transplantation and liver cancer, Application of robotic surgery and new biometerials in cancer research and Prospective clinical studies of liver surgery and hepatocellular carcinoma |
Professor Ronald Ching-wan Ma | Interests in diabetes, metabolism, endocrinology, genomic medicine, translational research |
Professor Sandie McCarthy* | Interests in Prevention, assessment and management of the short and long-term toxicities of cancer therapy |
Doctor Kevin O'Shaughnessy* | Interests in molecular genetics of essential hypertension, pre-eclampsia, physiology and pharmacology of Aldosterone |
Professor Alexander Ploss* | Interests in immune responses and pathogenesis to human infectious diseases, including hepatitis viruses, related flaviviruses, and malaria, Hepatocellular carcinoma, Viral hepatitis, Liver inflammation, Humanized mice, In vivo imaging and Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics |
Professor Peter Polverini* | Interests in angiogenesis, tumor angiogenesis, endothelial cells, healthcare quality, tumors, apoptosis, cardiovascular system, vascular biology and macrophage |
Professor Lit Man Poon | Interests in SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2, MERS-CoV and human/animal influenza viruses. |
Professor Dr. med. Jonas Rosendahl* | Interests in genetic studies in gastroenterology, functional studies of genetic variants (in vitro/in vivo), clinical research in gastroenterology |
Professor Feng Shao* | Interests in bacteria-host interaction, innate immunity, inflammation |
Professor Jiangang Shen | Interests in oxidative stress in aging-related diseases including cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases and cancer and Herbal medicine for cerebral and cardiac vascular diseases and cancer, focusing on antioxidant therapies |
Professor Jie Song* | Interests in biomaterials and regenerative medicine; design and evaluation of smart synthetic bone / cartilage tissue grafts, metallic implant surface modifications for reducing periprosthetic infections, new therapeutic targets for the development of disease modifying drugs of osteoarthritis |
Professor Christopher Tredwin* | Interests in Endodontics, Periodontics, Prosthodontics and Restorative Dentistry |
Professor Yi Wang* | Interests in biomedical imaging and instrumentation, bioengineering, biomedical engineering, image analysis, signal and image processing, scientific computing, biomolecular engineering, algorithms, artificial intelligence, biophysics, biotechnology, computational fluid dynamics, complex systems, network science and computation, computational science and engineering, computer aided diagnosis, neuroscience, statistics and machine learning |
Professor Zilong Wen* | Interests in the development and function of hematopoietic stem cells, microglia and Langerhans cells and how their dysregulations incur diseases |
Professor Kenneth Kak-Yuen Wong | Interests in molecular biology of childhood tumors, immuno-modulation in transplantation tolerance and nanomedicine for wound regeneration and tumor therapy, including novel drug therapies |
Professor Yang K Xiang* | Interests in Pharmacology |
Professor Jiake Xu* | Interests in osteoimmunology, osteolysis, and mechanisms of bone resorption, bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells and pericytes, screening of natural compounds for the treatment of osteoporosis, deciphering the molecular basis of musculoskeletal diseases using ENU-induced mutant mice and cc mice and intercellular communication and angiogenic potential of endothelial progenitor cells in bone microenvironment |
Professor Nieng Yan* | Interests in structural biology of membrane transport proteins, with a focus on glucose transporters and voltage-gated sodium and calcium channels |
Professor Xian-jie Yang* | Interests in ophthalmology, development and diseases of the vertebrate retina |
Professor Ella Yeung | Interests in muscle physiology, cellular regulation of skeletal muscle adaptation to mechanical stimuli, mechanism underlying muscle damage in muscular dystrophy, sports injury and rehabilitation medicine, exercise and health |
Professor Jun Yu | Interests in molecular pathogenesis and biomarkers of gastrointestinal (GI) cancers, gut microbiota in GI cancers, non-alcohol steatohepatitis (NASH) and its associated liver cancer |
Professor Tao Zhang* | Interests in the neuronal processes that mediate visual perception, visually guided behavior and multi-sensory integration/interaction |
Professor Xin Zhang* | Interests in glial development and pathology, mechanism of FGF signaling in eye development, molecular regulation of cell shape, adhesion and migration and neural degeneration and repair |
Secretary | |
Ms Milly Ng | Assistant Secretary General (Research) 1, UGC. |
* Non-local Members