Kathy Lui, Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Prof. Kathy Lui received her Bachelor of Science (First-class honor) and Master of Philosophy degrees from the Department of Biochemistry, Chinese University of Hong Kong. With support from the full scholarship, Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award, Prof. Lui completed her Ph.D in the field of Stem Cell Immunology at Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, U.K. Prof. Lui was also the recipient of Senior Scholarship at Lincoln College, Oxford, U.K. and Peter Beaconsfield Prize in Physiological Sciences, Oxford, U.K. which is awarded specifically to young researchers who are ‘capable of escaping from the stereotype of narrow specialization, and who display a wider grasp of the significance and potential applicability of their research’. Thereafter, Prof. Lui received the Croucher Foundation Fellowship and continued her postdoctoral training in the field of Stem Cells and Vascular Regeneration at Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, U.S. Prof. Lui has granted two patents during her postdoctoral training in the U.S.