Prof. Fiona Watt, Director of the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, King’s College London, U.K. and a delegation from Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine (MWLC), Karolinska Institutet, including Prof. Sandra Ceccatelli, Director of MWLC visited the School of Biomedical Sciences (SBS), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) on 6 November 2019.

Upon arrival, Prof. Chan Wai-yee, the then Director of SBS and Director of the Institute for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (iTERM) first gave the visitors a brief introduction on the latest development of SBS and iTERM. A fruitful meeting between the members from SBS and iTERM and delegates from MWLC was also held. They shared with each other their latest academic achievements and research findings to explore opportunities for multi-disciplinary collaborations. After the meeting, accompanied by Prof. Chan Wai-yee, Prof. Watt and Prof. Ceccatelli were arranged to tour the Core Laboratories located in the Lo Kwee-Seong Integrated Biomedical Sciences Building (LIBSB) to learn the all-round and cutting-edge equipment of SBS.

Afterwards, Prof. Watt delivered a talk titled “Exploring Heterogeneity of Human Skin Cells“, which was co-organised by iTERM and MWLC, and well-attended by over 200 academics and research staff not only from the School, but also from the Faculties of Medicine, Engineering and Science of CUHK. Through strengthening the mutual understanding in the visit, we hope to further fortify academic and research collaboration relationship with MWLC in the future.

The corresponding coverage by iTERM can be viewed HERE.

Prof. Chan Wai-yee (standing) gives the visitors a brief introduction on the latest development of SBS and iTERM

Prof. Ceccatelli (left) and Prof. Watt (middle) are guided by Prof. Chan Wai-yee (right) to tour the Core Laboratories of SBS

Snapshot taken in the tour of the Core Laboratories, SBS

Prof. Watt delivers a talk titled “Exploring Heterogeneity of Human Skin Cells“

Prof. Watt delivers a talk

Prof. Rocky S. Tuan (left), Vice-Chancellor and President of CUHK presents souvenir to Prof. Watt (right)