Events
Inaugural Lecture of Tony Mok Shu Kam Professorship in Medicine by Professor Allen Chan
3 May 2024
5:00-6:00pm
Kai Chong Tong, JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Prince of Wales Hospital, 30-32 Ngan Shing Street, Sha Tin, New Territories
Professor Allen Chan
Professor Allen Chan’s main research interest is developing new diagnostic approaches based on circulating DNA analysis. The applications of his inventions cover noninvasive prenatal testing, cancer diagnostics, organ transplant and autoimmune diseases monitoring. To date, he has published 169 peer-reviewed articles with a total citation of over 11,000 and an h-index of 56. He is a co-inventor of over 1,500 patent applications with over 900 granted globally covering 73 inventions on molecular diagnostics. Among his inventions, the noninvasive prenatal test for Down syndrome is the most notable. This test has been adopted in over 70 countries with millions of test performed each year.
Professor Chan also led the first large-scale prospective study to demonstrate the feasibility of using liquid biopsy to screen for early asymptomatic cancers. This work was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2017 and was chosen as one of the ten notable articles for that year.
He is also an entrepreneur and he co-founded a number of biotechnology companies with Professors Dennis Lo and Rossa Chiu. One of his companies, Cirina, after merging with Grail, was acquired by Illumina, at a cost of over USD 8 billion. In addition to research, Allen is also passionate about teaching and received a total of four Teacher of the Year awards from the Faculty of Medicine, CUHK.
Register here by 19 April 2024
4:30pm Guest registration
5:00pm Lecture commences
6:00pm Lecture concludes
