Biomedical Sciences
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Dr Jacky Lam
Dr. Jacky Lam is the Assistant Dean (Research) from the Faculty of Medicine and the Assistant Professor from the Department of Chemical Pathology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Lam obtained his medical degree in 2007 and received his PhD in Chemical Pathology from CUHK in 2020. He also obtained FRCSEd, FHKCORL and FHKAM in Otorhinolaryngology. He is an honorary associate consultant at the Prince of Wales Hospital.
He specialises in research areas such as non-invasive cancer diagnostic approaches, biology of circulating nucleic acids and nasopharyngeal cancer diagnostics. He is involved in a large-scale prospective clinical study using plasma Epstein-Barr virus DNA for screening of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, which laid the foundation for the clinical utility of plasma Epstein-Barr virus DNA analysis for cancer screening. He has further investigated the distinct molecular features of plasma Epstein-Barr virus DNA in nasopharyngeal cancer. These discoveries have led to the development of novel diagnostic assays which allows better differentiation of patients with nasopharyngeal cancer and non-cancer subjects in the context of screening.
He currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Pathology at CUHK with biological features of plasma DNA and its potential clinical application in noninvasive cancer detection as his research interests.
Prof Julian A Tanner
Professor Julian A Tanner is a Professor of biomedical sciences at The University of Hong Kong. He obtained his BSc at University of Bristol, followed by a PhD at Imperial College London.
Professor Tanner specialises in chemical biology, focusing especially on directed nucleic acid evolution for translational biomedical application. His interdisciplinary research team combines biomedical science, chemistry and engineering to tackle major medical challenges including developing new technologies for biosensing, diagnostics and therapeutics in the contexts of point-of-care infectious disease diagnostics and continuous hormone sensing for reproductive disorders.
Prof Tanner co-authored a multidisciplinary textbook, namely, “Essentials of Chemical Biology” published by Wiley with a second edition in press for 2023.
He is currently the Assistant Dean (Biomedical Sciences Curriculum) for Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU, and Associate Director (Teaching and learning) for School of Biomedical Sciences at HKU. He is also the Director of the Common Core at HKU.
