Supervisors

Supervisors for the program of Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Sciences

Full-time Supervisors

Tam Kwong Hang (Paul)                                                                                                                              

 Chair Professor                         

Precision and regenerative medicine, genetics, -omics and stem cell of human diseases especially chronic liver and gastro-intestinal diseases, congenital anomalies; new drug and delivery platforms and biotechnology innovations; paediatric surgery.

Jiang Zhi Hong

Chair Professor

Natural products chemistry; Interaction of pharmacologically-active natural products with biomacromolecules; Quality control of Chinese medicinal herbs

Zhu Yi Zhun

Chair Professor

Pharmacology; New drug research and development; Cardiovascular and immune disease research.

Zhang Kang

Chair Professor

Ophthalmology; Human Genetics; Stem Cell Research; Gene Editing; Artificial Intelligence.

Yao He

Professor

Construction of Nano-biomedicine Platform, Development of New Medical Imaging Probes, Multi-functional Nano Drug Carriers and Nano Chinese and Western Medicine Reagents to provide new tools and methods for the precise diagnosis and treatment of diseases (such as tumors, eye diseases, etc.)

Wong Kam Wai

Professor

Molecular docking and Omics technology for     innovative drug research; Mechanistic studies and drug targets     identification of natural products for cancer and inflammatory diseases; Autophagy and cancer; Apoptosis-resistant mechanism in cancer.

Wu Qi Biao

Professor

Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Internal Medicine; Study on the mechanism of drug resistance in lung cancer and the synergistic effect of Chinese and Western drugs; Evidence-based medical research on the treatment of cardiopulmonary diseases with integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine.

Xiao Ying

Professor

Nutrition and Diseases; Risk Assessment in Food Safety; Toxicology Evaluation in Food Safety.

Ye Li

Professor

Immunology and Microbiology; Modern Biotechnology.

Brian Tomlinson

Professor

Pathogenesis and treatment of hypertension and hyperlipidaemia and their contribution to atheromatous disease

Sookja Kim Chung

Professor

OMICS and microbiome in pathogenesis of diseases; Neurodegenerative diseases; Stroke and vascular dementia; Metabolic & depressive disorders; Stem cells in development & diseases

Xinghua (Victor) Pan

Professor 

Single cell technology innovation and application, Genome medicine,  Stem cell and aging and regenerative medicine, Cancer heterogeneity and precision medicine, Bioinformatics for omics data, Chinese medicine omics

Gregory Cheng

Professor

Immune thrombocytopenia; Immune thrombocytopenia; Leukemia; Myelodysplastic syndrome; Thombosis; Transfusion medicine.

Luo Pei

Associate Professor                             

Living cell image technology for innovative     drug research; Molecular targeting and treatment  mechanisms of TCM on ischemic heart disease; Mitochondrial dynamics mechanism in hypoxia cardimyocyte.

Law Yuen Kwan

Associate Professor

Cellular regulation and signaling of     autophagy; Molecular mechanisms that underlie  autophagy and neurodegenerative diseases; Novel drug discovery from Chinese medicinal herbs for neurological disorders.

Wu Qiang

Associate Professor

Stem cell biology; Epigenetics.

Wu Jian Lin

Associate Professor

Determination of target components in different samples using LC-MS and LC-MSNMR; Integrated analytical approach of metabolomics and proteomics for mechanism study of Chinese medicines.

Xu You Hua

Associate Professor

Herbal Pharmacology; Molecular Pharmacology; Diabetic Research

Wang Ling

Associate Professor

Public Health; Nutrition; Food Science.

Daniel Baptista-Hon

Associate Professor

Cancer Biology; Pharmacology; Neuroscience; Cardiac Physiology; Translational Medicine; Ion Channels; Opioid Analgesics; Patch-clamp Electrophysiology.

Zhong Tian

Associate Professor

Applications of biomaterials and nanotechnology in food and pharmacy, functional activities and synergies of natural extracts, etc.

Li Xinzhi

Assistant Professor

Unsaturated fatty acid and lipid mediator signaling pathway; obesity-associated chronic inflammation; communication between fat cells and other cells in cardiovascular diseases; drug development for anti-inflammation; epidemiology of cardiovascular disease risk assessment based on large databases. 

Olivia Monteiro

Assistant Professor

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology; Cognitive Neuroscience; Behavioural Neuroscience; Pre-clinical Drug Discovery; Rodent Models; In vitro and in vivo Electrophysiology.

Yu Xi

Assistant Professor

Laboratory Medicine; Immunology; Clinical Trial of Medicines.

Wang Xiao Lin

Assistant Professor

Novel drugs/gene delivery systems;  Biomaterials.

Wong Io Nam

Assistant Professor

Biochemistry; Molecular Biology; DNA Damage Repair.

Simon Mok

Assistant Professor

Immunology; Autoimmune Diseases; Neuroinflammation; Proteinopathy.

External Supervisors‘ specialties

Xie Tian

Professor

Biology, modern traditional Chinese medicine and natural medicine research and development, integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine oncology, liposome nano-preparations

Huang Xiaolun

Professor

Hepatobiliary and pancreatic tumors and cell therapy

Gui Dingkun

Professor

Research on diabetic nephropathy, its mechanisms, prevention and treatment

* Remark: Part-time supervisors should jointly supervise doctoral students with teachers from our school.