發育及再生生物學
Development and diseases
- Embryonic and fetal development and reproductive tract environment in health and diseases including prematurity, Hirschprung’s disease, neural crest defects, cardiac diseases and diabetic pregnancies.
- Development and regeneration of peripheral nerves, craniofacial development, deafness and eye diseases.
- Genetic and molecular basis of skeletal disorders
- Wnt/Planar cell polarity (Wnt/PCP) signaling in development and disease.
Stem cells and tissue engineering
- Regulatory mechanisms of stem cell differentiation (microRNA, ion channels, long non-coding RNAs) and stem cell therapy in tissue regeneration.
- Generation, biological, genetic and genomic characterization, and clinical application of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, embryonic stem cells and mesenchymal stem cells (MSC).
- Application of iPS cells as disease models including neurological diseases and cancers and as tools for drug discoveries.
- Stem cell biology and cell-based therapies
- Stem cell-based tissue engineering, biomaterials, artificial intelligence, deep learning, label-free cell tracking, musculoskeletal regeneration, orthopaedic research, small molecules and 3D microphysiological tissue models for regenerative medicine.
- Molecular regulation of stem cells in aging and age-related diseases
Developmental genomics, genetics and epigenetics
- Genetics and genomics of organogenesis, and functional genomics, epigenetics and cell biology of the reproductive epithelia, developing germ cells, embryonic gonads and reproductive tumors.
- Inherited and congenital diseases and personalized medicine.
- Molecular mechanisms of acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease.
- CRISPR and gene-editing technologies for gene and cell therapies to treat human diseases.
| Name | Contact No. | Research Interests |
| Prof BLOCKI Anna Maria | 3943 9797 | Tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, biomaterials, stem cells, cell-based therapy, hydrogel, extracellular matrix |
| 3943 3032 | Tissue engineering, liver regeneration, stem cell, microfluidics, biomaterial, biomechanics |
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| 3943 0509 | Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, enabling technologies, biomaterials, complex organoid and tumoroids, cell niche engineering, mechanoregulation | |
| 3943 1383 |
Genetic diseases, germ cells, differentiation, |
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Prof CHAN Wood Yee (Chief)
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3943 6895 | Stem cell therapy, development of enteric nervous system, neural crest stem cells, stem cell migration and differentiation, congenital gut disorders, cell transplantation, mouse embryonicdevelopment, Hirschsprung's disease, irritable bowel syndrome, neural crest cell induction |
| 3943 9796 | Stem cell differentiation and aging | |
| Prof DALTON Stephen 杜卓勳教授 |
3943 0537 | Pluripotent and adult stem cells, Cardiac development, Brown and beige adipocytes, Therapeutic development for type 2 diabetes |
| 3943 1455 | Genome editing, Stem cells, Gene and cell therapy, Inherited hematopoietic and metabolic disorders |
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| 3943 9986 | Infertility, assisted reproduction technologies, male contraceptive, sperm functions, spermatogenesis, germline stem cell biology, germ cell transplantation, testis microenvironment, cancer/testis genes |
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| 3943 6801 | Skeletal Biology, Skeletal Disorders, Wnt/PCP signaling in development and disease | |
| 3943 5747 | Molecular mechanisms of deleterious genetic alterations in inheritable human diseases |
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| Prof JIANG Xiaohua 蔣曉華教授 |
3943 1229 | Stem cell epigenetics, stem cell therapy, stem cell microenvironment, aging |
| Prof JIANG Yangzi 姜洋子教授 |
3943 5153 | Tissue Degeneration and Tissue Regeneration: Osteoarthritis |
| 3943 4497 | Muscloskeletal biology, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, functionally-graded biomaterials, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cell tracking, computer vision |
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| Prof KO Wing Hung 高永雄教授 |
3943 6781 | Epithelial transport, Ca2+/cAMP signaling, purinergic receptors, Heme oxygenase, carbon monoxide, airway inflammation, fluorescence imaging |
| 3943 0415 | Molecular mechanisms of mammalian development and human congenital disorders, transcriptional regulation, functional genomics, craniofacial, inner ear and sensory neural development, neural crest and placode, stem cells and regeneration |
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| 3943 4494 | Bone, cartilage, degeneration, regeneration, stem cells, small molecules, tissue engineering |
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| 3943 4497 | Bone tendon tissue engineering, extracellular matrix, stem cells, immunomodulation |
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| Prof XIA Yin 夏銀教授 |
3943 4480 | Kidney physiology, injury and repair, Male reproductive biology, Metabolic signaling pathways in the liver |
| 3943 1344 | Embryonic development, tumorigenesis of neuroblastoma, tissue regeneration and therapy |
| Name | Contact No. | Research Interests |
| Prof SO Kam Hei Karl | 3943 0416 | Mammalian development and human congenital disorders, myogenesis, craniofacial development, transcriptional regulation, placode, single-cell genomics, epigenetics |
| Prof WANG Wuming | 3943 0570 | ESC pluripotency, cardiac development and disease, genome editing |
| Name | Contact No. |
| Prof CHAN Chung Ngor Juliana | 3505 3138 |
| Dr CHAN Leung Kwok Clement | --- |
| Prof CHENG Chun Yiu Jack | 3505 2729 |
| Prof CHOY Kwong Wai Richard | 3505 3099 |
| Prof LEUNG Ting Fan | 3505 2860 / 3505 2850 |
| Prof LI Gang | 3505 3592 / 3763 6153 |
| Prof LI Zhong Alan | 3943 5906 |
| Prof POON Wai Sang | 3505 2624 |
| Prof TANG Leung Sang Nelson | 3505 2320 |
| Prof WANG Huating | 3763 6047 |
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