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Professor Michael Yang Mengsu is currently Senior Vice-President (Innovation and Enterprise), Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, and Director of both the Tung Biomedical Sciences Centre and Shenzhen Biotechnology and Health Centre of City University of Hong Kong (CityU). He obtained his BSc degree from Xiamen University in China, MSc degree from Simon Fraser University and PhD degree from the University of Toronto in Canada, and received postdoctoral training in the Scripps Research Institute in the United States of America (USA).

 

Prof. Yang’s research interests focus on studying cancer biology and developing biochips and nanotechnology for diagnostics and therapeutic applications. He has published over 280 peer-reviewed scientific papers and 33 USA/China patents, delivered research presentations and invited lectures in more than 80 international conferences and 50 universities and academic institutes, and trained more than 40 PhD graduates and 30 postdoctoral fellows. He has co-founded Prenetics and Cellomics, CityU spin-off biotech companies based on technologies developed in his laboratory. Prof. Yang also serves in Hong Kong SAR Government’s Research Grants Council, the Health and Medical Research Fund, the Innovation and Technology Fund, and the Hong Kong Genome Centre. He holds honorary professorships at the Institute of Microsystems of Chinese Academy of Science, Zhejiang University, and Army’s Medical University. He has been awarded the Chunhui Scholar Award by the Ministry of Education in China in 2003, the K. C. Wong Foundation Award in 2004, the Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Award in 2006, the Hong Kong Technological Achievement Grand Award in 2007, the Natural Science Award by the Ministry of Education in 2015, and the Wuxi AppTech Life Science and Chemistry Award in 2016.