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Clinical Medicine

Professor Francis K.L. Chan

Choh-Ming Li Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine

Anti-thrombotics and gastrointestinal bleeding, non-invasive colorectal cancer diagnosis, translation and clinical applications of gut microbiota

Professor Henry Chan Lik-yuen

Clinical Professor (honorary), Faculty of Medicine

Hepatitis, fatty liver, cirrhosis, liver cancer

Professor Tony Mok

Chairman of the Department of Clinical Oncology, and Li Shu Fan Medical Foundation Professor of Clinical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine

Lung cancer, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, biomarkers

Professor Siew Ng

Assistant Dean (Development), Croucher Professor in Medical Sciences, and Professor of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine

Inflammatory bowel disease, gut microbiota, faecal microbiota transplantation, colorectal cancer

Professor Vincent Wong Wai-sun

Assistant Dean (Development), Mok Hing Yiu Professor of Medicine, and Professor of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine

Fatty liver

Professor Yu Jun

Choh-Ming Li Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics, and Director of CUHK’s Institute of Digestive Disease

Genomic and epigenomic alterations in gastrointestinal (GI) cancer, gut microbiome, bacteria/host interaction during cancer development, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and liver cancer in relation to the mechanisms and therapeutic targets, biomarkers for early detection and treatment of GI cancer

Professor Joseph Sung Jao-yiu

CUHK Emeritus Professor of Medicine

*currently Senior Vice President (Health and Life Sciences) at Nanyang Technological University and Dean of Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine

Gastrointestinal ulcer bleeding, microbiome, colon cancer, artificial intelligence

Cross-Field

Professor David Hui Shu-cheong

Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Stanley Ho Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine

Respiratory failure and sleep disordered breathing, management of emerging severe acute respiratory infections, safety of respiratory therapy and prevention of nosocomial infections in the post-SARS era, common airway diseases

Professor Grace Wong Lai-hung

Assistant Dean (Learning Experience), Professor of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine

Chronic viral hepatitis B and C, hepatocellular carcinoma, non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis, idiopathic peptic ulcer, big data in Medicine

Professor Martin Wong Chi-sang

Professor of the Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine; Director, The Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion

Chronic disease, Preventive medicine and disease screening, Primary healthcare

Professor Samuel Wong Yeung-shan

Associate Dean (Education) and Director of the Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine

Primary care, mental health, mind body and behaviour medicine, men’s health, social inequality and health, public health and primary care education and training, health services

Professor William Wu Ka-kei

Professor (Non-clinical) of the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Faculty of Medicine

Cancer biology and genomics, sepsis and ICU-related Infections, pain mechanism, autophagy, microbiome, evolutionary medicine

Dr Sunny Wong

Clinical Associate Professor (honorary), Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine

*Associate Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University

Microbiome, nutrition, digestive diseases, metabolic syndrome, obesity

Professor Heng Pheng-ann

Choh-Ming Li Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Medical AI, extended reality, visualisation, graphics and computer vision

Professor Martin Stolterfoht

Vice-Chancellor Associate Professor of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Perovskite and organic solar cells, perovskite-based tandem solar cells, optoelectronic devices, charge transport and recombination, ionic transport, device simulations, optoelectronic and spectroscopic thin film characterisation

Professor Xu Jianbin

Associate Dean (Mainland Affairs) of the Faculty of Engineering, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Electronic Engineering, and Director of Materials Science and Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Engineering

Near-field and nanoscopic sensing and imaging, nanoelectronics/nanophotonics, thin film technology, physics and technology of organic semiconductor devices, oxide based electronic and photonic materials and devices, hybrid perovskite optoelectronics, 2D material electronics/ optoelectronics, advanced thermal management

Materials Science

Professor Wong Ching-ping

Emeritus Professor of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

*currently Regents’ Professor and the Charles Smithgall Institute Endowed Chair in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology

Polymeric electronic materials, electronic, photonic and MEMS packaging and interconnect, interfacial adhesions, and nano-functional material syntheses and characterisations