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Jun 8, 2024. 10:00 am

Seminar: Soft and flexible bioelectronics for stem cell engineering and brain-machine interfaces

Speaker: Professor Jia LIU, Assistant Professor, Harvard University

Jun 8, 2024. 10:00 am

Seminar: High-Content Modeling of Human Tissues and Diseases in vitro

Speaker: Professor Yu Shrike ZHANG, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Associate Bioengineer, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Affiliate Faculty, Harvard Stem Cell Institute

May 17, 2024. 11:00 am

Seminar: Metabolic Impact of the Small Intestine, Kidney, and the Brain

Speaker: Professor Tony LAM, Senior Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute (TGHRI), University Health Network (UHN), Canada

January 10, 2024. 16:30 pm

Seminar: Overcoming Multidrug Resistance with Nanodrugs

Speaker: Professor Zhe-Sheng CHEN, Professor, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John’s University, United States

January 10, 2024. 16:30 pm

Seminar: Natural Products for Cancer Management: The present and the future

Speaker: Professor Dong-Hua YANG, Administrative Dean, New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, United States; Adjunct Professor, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China

Dec 11, 2023. 11:00 am

Seminar: Extra-pancreatic function of GLP-1 receptor agonists- Involvement of FGF21 in the liver

Speaker: Professor Tianru JIN, Professor, Dept. of Medicine and Physiology, University of Toronto

September 29, 2023. 4:00 pm

Seminar: Developing glycine-based therapy for NASH and atherosclerosis

Speaker: Professor Yuqing CHEN, Frederick G L Huetwell Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine. Director, Center for Advanced Models for Translational Sciences and Therapeutics, University of Michigan

Sep 21, 2023. 11:00 am

Lab meeting

Speaker: Prof. Aimin XU, New students and staff

Sep 21, 2023. 12:00 am

Seminar: Delivery of mitochondrial uncoupler to WAT by polycations to treat obesity

Speaker: Dr. CHEN Kang, Postdoctoral fellow, SKLPB, University of Hong Kong

July 10th, 2023

Seminar: Receptor-mediated Lipid Transport in Metabolic Homeostasis and Viral Defense

Speaker: Professor Xiao-wei CHEN, Professor, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University

Laboratory of Molecular Metabolic Control, Centre for Life Sciences Beijing, China.

June 29, 2023 (Thur) 11:00 AM

Seminar: Proximity extension assay for the simultaneous detection of multiple islet autoantibodies for the accurate diagnosis of autoimmune diabetes

Speaker: Ms. Hao Han, PhD student, SKLPB, University of Hong Kong

June 29, 2023 (Thur) 11:40 AM

Seminar: Clinical implementation of TSP2 as a promising biomarker for NASH and liver fibrosis

Speaker: Mr. Pei Wan, PhD student, SKLPB, University of Hong Kong

March 31, 2023. 9.30 AM

Seminar: Clinical implementation of TSP2 as a promising biomarker for NASH and liver fibrosis

Speaker: Professor Minglin Ma, Professor at Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, USA

Mar 27, 2023. 9.00 AM

Events: On-site major review visit for Areas of Excellence Scheme (AoE) project

Project title: Institute of Metabolic Medicine (Project code: AoE/M-707/18)

Feb 20, 2023. 4:00 pm

Seminar: Noncoding RNAs and associated mechanisms regulating transcriptional changes in diabetic retinopathy

Speaker: Professor Subrata Chakrabarti, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Western University, Canada

December 16, 2024. 10:00 am

Seminar: Finding polygenic biomarkers of complex diseases

Speaker: Professor Weixiong ZHANG. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University