|
Date |
Topic |
Speaker |
8 August 2012
11:00 am -
12:00 pm
Pathology Conference Room 38069,
1/F, Clinical Sciences Building,
Prince of Wales Hospital |
Maternal Plasma DNA Testing for Aneuploidy: Practical Issues in the US Implementation |
Glenn E. Palomaki, PhD
Associate Director, Division of Medical Screening and Special Testing
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Women & Infants Hospital / Alpert Medical School of Brown University |
| 14 September 2012 |
Development of human MSCs cell lines overexpressing thymidine kinase gene for anti-tumor therapy |
Dr Wayne Lee
Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
18 September 2012
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Room 407, 4/F, Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital |
Implications of NIPT on first trimester maternal screening |
Prof Howard Cuckle
Emeritus Professor of Reproductive Epidemiology
Centre for Reproduction, Growth and Development
School of Medicine,
University of Leeds |
18 September 2012
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm
Room 407, 4/F, Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital |
Ethical and practical issues encountered as NIPT becomes incorporated into prenatal care |
Prof Diana W. Bianchi
Executive Director, Mother Infant Research Institute
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pediatrics, Floating Hospital for Children
Natalie V Zucker Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Tufts University School of Medicine |
21 September 2012
10:00 am -
11:00 am |
Revisiting Mescenchymal stem cells for tissue regeneration and immunomodulation |
Prof LIAN Qizhou
Department of Medicine
The University of Hong Kong |
| 28 September 2012 |
Pattern formation by engineered bacteria |
Dr LIU Chenli
Executive Director
GIAT-HKU joint Center for Synthetic Biology Engineering Research (CSynBER)
Guangzhou Institute of Advanced Technology (GIAT)
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nansha district, Guangzhou, China |
| 5 October 2012 |
A Journey with the Skeleton: From Development to Skeletal Diseases, to Regenerative Medicine |
Prof MAK King Lun Kingston
School of Biomedical Sciences
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 12 October 2012 |
Tendon-derived stem cells (TDSCs) |
Prof LUI Po Yee Pauline
Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 19 October 2012 |
Novel Protein Post-translational Modifications Revealed by the Crystal Structure of SIRT5 |
Prof HAO Quan
Department of Physiology
The University of Hong Kong |
| 2 November 2012 |
Liver Cancer: Why are men at a loss? |
Prof CHENG Sze Lok Alfred
Institute of Digestive Disease
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 23 November 2012 |
Epigenetic disruption of cell signaling during human cancer pathogenesis |
Prof TAO Qian
Department of Clinical Oncology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 30 November 2012 |
Intrinsic mechanisms regulating adult axon regeneration |
Prof LIU Kai
Division of Life Science
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| 7 December 2012 |
Patent 101 - overview of what is taught in a patent drafting course |
Prof Nelson Tang
Department of Chemical Pathology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 14 December 2012 |
Discovery of small molecule inhibitors of liver fibrosis: A lesson from Stem Cell Research |
Prof LEE Ka Ho Kenneth
School of Biomedical Sciences
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 21 December 2012 |
R&D of A Local and Systemic Bone-targeting Delivery Systems Carrying Osteogenic Growth Factors for Bone Defect Repair and Prevention of Osteoporosis |
Prof QIN Ling
Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 4 January 2013 |
Function of Linc-GM in Myogenesis |
Mr CAO Yang
PhD Student
Department of Chemical Pathology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 11 January 2013 |
Calcium, pH, Autophagy, and Stem Cells |
Prof YUE Jianbo
Department of Physiology
The University of Hong Kong |
| 18 January 2013 |
Mesenchymal stem cell based cartilage tissue engineering |
Dr Barbara P. Chan
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Hong Kong |
| 25 January 2013 |
Noninvasive Prenatal Assessment of Twin Pregnancies by Maternal Plasma DNA Sequencing |
Mr QU Zhengzhong James
PhD Student
Department of Chemical Pathology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 1 February 2013 |
Regulation on neural crest development, mechanisms we learned from lrig3 and ets1 |
Dr ZHAO Hui
School of Biomedical Sciences
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 22 February 2013 |
Association between the presence of methylated tumor suppressor gene sequences in serum and the risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma in chronic hepatitis B carriers |
Ms LEE Ka Man Carmen
MPhil Student
Department of Chemical Pathology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 1 March 2013 |
Bioinformatics in Non-invasive Prenatal Diagnosis |
Prof SUN Hao
Department of Chemical Pathology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 8 March 2013 |
Childhood and Adolescence Obesity: More than Sloth and Gluttony |
Prof Alice PS Kong
Department of Medicine and Therapeutics
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 15 March 2013 |
New technologies in prenatal diagnosis: an update |
Dr CHOY Kwong Wai Richard
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 22 March 2013 |
Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Allergic Activities of Pentaherb Formula, Moutan Cortex (Danpi) and Gallic Acid
on Atopic Dermatitis |
Ms LIU Yan Ping Kelly
MPhil Student
Department of Chemical Pathology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
9 April 2013
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
Rooms 407 and 408, 4/F, Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital |
Clinical & analytical complexities of measuring hCG |
Prof Ann M. Gronowski
Professor of Pathology & Immunology and Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Laboratory Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
Associate Medical Director, Clinical Chemistry, Serology and Immunology, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, USA |
| 3 May 2013 |
Modeling disease process by catastrophic (phase) transition of complex systems |
Mr YEUNG Hau Man
PhD Student
Department of Chemical Pathology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 10 May 2013 |
Interplay between epigenetic and microRNA deregulations in liver cancer metastasis |
Dr WONG Chun Ming Jack
Department of Pathology
The University of Hong Kong |
| 24 May 2013 |
Sequence-Based Discovery: The Past, Present and Future |
Prof LOK Si
Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
