Biology and Medicine Panel (Joint Research Schemes)
(as at 30 November 2023)
Member Sphere of Interest
Chairman
Professor Hongtao Yu* Combining cell biological, biochemical, and biophysical methods; Understanding cellular mechanisms
Deputy Chairman
Professor William Hunter* Enzymes; drugs; metals; structure-activity relationships; pathogens; secretion systems; bacteria; protists; tools; recombinant protein production; X-rays crystallography; Cryo-EM; protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions; ion channels; ligand interactions
Members
Professor Rudolf Bauer* Pharmacognosy, natural products, traditional Chinese medicine; herbal drugs; active plant constituents; phytochemistry; inflammation, cancer; herbal medicines
Professor Jing Cai Cancer; medical imaging
Professor Daniel Tak-mao Chan Kidney inflammation and fibrosis / clinical studies; kidney diseases; clinical outcomes; lupus nephritis
Professor Danny Chan Cell and stem cell biology; molecular signaling for cell maintenance & differentiation, ECM cell niche, organoids; skeletal development, genetic diseases, synovical joint formation; stem cell niche, stem cell potency, tissue specific progenitors; rare and common skeletal genetic disease, disease models, therapy; rare diseases, intervertebral disc degeneration, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis; stem cell differentiation, repair and regeneration, scaffolds
Professor Edwin Ho-yin Chan Neuroscience; therapeutic intervention of neurological diseases; human disease modeling
Professor Juliana C. N. Chan Diabetes; clinical pharmacology and precision medicine; epidemiology; genetics and clinical trials and implementation science; cardiovascular disease; heart failure; chronic kidney disease; behavioral implementation; care model; real world evidence; gene-environment-lifestyle interactions; pharmacoepidemiology; pharmacology/toxicology
Professor Zhe-sheng Chen* Cancer pharmacology
Professor Alfred Sze-lok Cheng Cancer; immunology; genomics
Professor Louis W. H. Cheung Orthopaedics / trauma - osteoporotic fracture healing and sarcopenia; mechanical stimulation; biophysical intervention
Professor Wai-tong Chien Psychosocial and behavioural science
Professor Larry Ming-cheung Chow Mechanism of drug resistance in cancer and parasites; drug discovery; drug transport; leishmania, malaria; drug resistance; cancer stem cells; flavonoid dimer; pharmacokinetics / pharmacodynamics in drug discovery
Professor Jonathan Fong Biodiversity and systematics; phylogeography; evolutionary biology; conservation genetics; vertebrate biology; metagenomics
Professor Xiaohua Gong* Molecular, cellular and genetic studies of the eye and vision; optometry; vision science; eye development and disease; lens development; junctions; cytoskeleton and cell-cell communication; retina and lens; kinase; signal transduction; calcium; mutation; genetic modifier; ocular cells; cornea; gene therapy and editing
Professor Stephen Hawkins* Ecosystem functioning; community; population and behavioural ecology using rocky shores and their organisms as a tractable test system; phylogeography; behaviour and anatomy of intertidal organisms; outcomes of the behaviour of key species for community processes and relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; climate change responses; fisheries; climate responses and behaviour; marine; biogeography; climate change; coastal management and conservation; pollution; algal ecology; marine biology molluscs; cirripedes; shellfisheries; impacts of fishing on sea-bed communities; recovery from pollution; habitat restoration; environmentally sensitive design of multi-purpose sea defences using eco-engineering approaches
Professor Mingliang He Cell biology; virology; drug development
Professor Liwen Jiang Cell and molecular biology in plants; gene regulation and expression; live cell imaging; confocal; 3D TEM; protein trafficking and organelle biogenesis and function in plant cells; plant biotechnology
Professor Dong-yan Jin Molecular virology; innate immunity; cell signaling; RNA biology; oncogenic viruses; protein phosphorylation; gene regulation; cell biology; cancer
Professor Kin-ming Kwan Genetic manipulation; study of organogenesis using moues as model organism; neural development and neuronal cell biology
Professor Hon-ming Lam Metabolic engineering; gene-environment interactions; plant-microbe interactions; gene function; crop genomics, stress tolerance, plant biotechnology; agricultural biotechnolgy
Professor Ping-yee Law* Neuroscience of addiction; epigenetic, miRNAs; GPCRs; opioid analgesic, addiction; neuropharmacology; high throughput drug screens
Professor Hon-chi Lee* Cardiac electrophysiology; regulation of ion channels in the cardiovascular system; endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factors; cardiovascular complications in diabetes; autonomic modulation, G protein receptors; molecular mechanisms of aging; mechanisms of arrhythmias, sudden death, pacemakers; cardiovascular complications; Alzheimer's disease
Professor Simon Ming-yuen Lee* Traditional Chinese medicine; biochemistry of cancer; system biology
Professor Brendan M. Leung* 3D culture platform; engineering tumor models; regenerative endodontic therapy; epithelial tissue repair; advanced microbe-mammalian co-culture platform, organ-on-a-chip; artificial mucus, hydrogel, soft tissue scaffold
Professor Kenneth Mei-yee Leung Aquatic ecology and toxicology; environmental quality benchmarks; ecological risk assessment of chemical pollutants and biological invasion; fisheries; conservation of marine biodiversity; ecosystem restoration via ecologically engineered shorelines; marine pollution; ecotoxicology; ecological restoration; environmental science; water quality management; marine biology; biological invasion; marine conservation; fish gut microbiomes; environmental DNA; fisheries and mariculture
Professor Gang Li Stem cell therapy clinical applications; Limb deformity correctio and reconstruction; Cartilage repair; Bone regeneration; Skin regeneration; TCP, PCL, cell biomaterial; Integration; Electrospinning; Allogenic stem cells; Circulating stem cells; Distraction histogenesis; Bone fracture repair
Professor Eddy Foo-yew Liew* Allergy / immunology; infection / parasitology; rheumatology; cell biology; microbiology; diabetes / metabolism
Professor Hongbin Liu Marine ecology; microbial food web dynamics; biodiversity
Professor Kai Liu Axon regeneration; spinal cord injury; neural repair; axon formation and elongation; neural development; retinal ganglion cells; stem cells; gene therapy; neurological diseases
Professor Aiping Lyu Chinese medicine; clinical pharmacology; arthritis and related new drug discovery
Professor Alex Molasiotis* Health care; randomised trials
Professor Stanley Perlman* Microbiology; comparative immunology
Professor Randy Y. C. Poon Cell cycle control; Checkpoints; Mitosis; DNA damage; Cell death; Genome instability; Cancer biology; Drug development
Professor Peng Shi Neurosciences - neuro engineering; high-throughput screening; single cell-based analysis; biomaterials and bioelectronics
Professor Patrick Tan* Cancer; genomics
Professor Chi-ho To Vision; retinal degeneration
Professor Stephen Kwok-wing Tsui Genomics; cancer biology; virology
Professor Dongan Wang Biomaterials; tissue engineering; regenerative medicine
Professor Alice S. T. Wong Molecular and cell biology
Professor Chris Kong-chu Wong Molecular endocrinology and toxicology; endocrine-disrupting chemicals; fish physiology; energy homeostasis; male reproductive system; fish endocrinology; osmoregulation; tumor microenvironment
Professor Frances Kam-yuet Wong Transitional care; health service model and system; chronic disease management; primary healthcare; advanced nursing practice
Professor May Chun-mei Wong Public dental health; biostatistics; geriatric dental health; clinical trials
Professor Hongxi Kevin Xu* Traditional Chinese medicine
Professor Ge Zhang Science and clinical translational medicine in orthopaedics and traumatology
Professor Michael Q. Zhang* Regulatory network; 4D genome; omics technologies; computational biology; developmental regulation network; computational analysis
Professor Yanxiang Zhao Biochemistry; trafficking; protein engineering
Professor Yunde Zhao* Plant hormones; cell and molecular biology
Prof Hong Zhou* Stem cells; bone biology
Secretary
Ms Milly NG Assistant Secretary-General (Research)1, UGC

*Non-local Members