Lab of Combinatorial Genetics & Synthetic Biology @ HKU
Alan Wong
Dr. Alan Siu-lun Wong is an Associate Professor of the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Hong Kong (HKU).
Before he joined HKU, he obtained his B.Sc. and M.Phil. degrees in Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2005 and 2007 respectively, and completed his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2011. He joined the Synthetic Biology Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2012-2016 for postdoctoral training. Dr. Wong was awarded with the Croucher Foundation Studentship (2008), the Butterfield-Croucher Award (2008), the Croucher Foundation Fellowship (2012), the Hong Kong Institution of Science Young Scientist Award in life science (2011), RGC Early Career Award (2016/2017), NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Award (Hong Kong and Macau) (2020), and BOCHK Science and Technology Innovation Prize in Life and Health (2023) .
Peng Zhou
Postdoc
Since 2016
Chu Zhang
Postdoc
Since 2020
Athena Chu
Postdoc
Since 2020
Ricky Poon
Postdoc
Since 2022
Sin Guang Chen
Postdoc
Since 2022
Helena Lam Yin Kau
Postdoc
Since 2022
Don Chan
Postdoc
Since 2024
Maggie Cheung
Technical Officer
Since 2021
Fung Khe Cheong , Frederic
Technical Officer
Since 2022
Sabrina Carrillo
Research assistant
Since 2022
Liz Cheng
Research assistant
Since 2022
Students
Charmaine Chan
Mphil student
Since 2023
Biomed FYP student (2022-23)
Part time student research assistant (2021-22)
Lucas Lee
Master of Research in Medicine (MRes[Med]) student
Recipient of Research Internship Award - Undergraduate Research Fellowship Programme (URFP)
Recipient of Mr & Mrs SH Wong Foundation Scholarship for MRes[Med]
Since 2023
Mou Yuanbiao
MPhil Student
Since 2023
Research assistant (2021-22)
Marie Lee
MPhil Student
Since 2023
Becky Chan
PhD student
Since 2021 (Recipient of HKU University Postgraduate Fellowships (UPF))
Research assistant (2019-21)
MPhil student (2017-19)
John Fong
PhD student
Since 2021 (Recipient of Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (HKPF) and HKU Presidential PhD Scholarship (HKU-PS))
MPhil student (2019-21)
BioMed FYP student (2018-19)
Charles Chan
PhD student
Since 2020 (Recipient of HKU University Postgraduate Fellowships (UPF))
Research assistant (2019-20)
Bei Wang
PhD student
Since 2020
Research assistant (2020)
Jiaxing Peng
PhD student
Since 2022
Research assistant (2022)
Alumni
Zero Yuen – PhD student (MPhil student (2018-20), Research assistant (2016-18)) (2020-2022)
Dawn Thean – Research assistant (2018-2022)
Oliver Chan – BioEng. FYP student (2021-2022)
Feng Xu (William) – Postdoc (PhD student (2016-2020)) (2020-2022)
Cynthia Kwok – Technical Officer (2019-2021)
Grace Tsui – Biochem FYP student (2020-2021)
Arthur Cheng – Medical Engineering FYP student (2020-2021)
Cindy Tong – Technical Officer (2020-2021)
Joe Lam – MCB FYP student (2019-2020)
Sophia Ma – Postdoc (2019-2020)
Sophia Zhong – Biochem. FYP student (2019-2020)
Ian Sun – BioEng. Intern student (2019-2020)
YukKei Wan – Research Asistant (2018-2020)
Kylie Mak – Research Asistant (2019-2020)
Peter Fu – Research Fellow from HKUST; Recipient of the InnoTech Scholarship (2019 summer)
Rachel Li – Technician (2019)
Guanhua Xun – Research Asistant (2019)
Ali Muhammad – Biomed. Engineering FYP Student (2018-2019)
Jien-Vei Khaw – Biomed. Engineering FYP Student (2018-2019)
Jessie Ho – Biochem. FYP student; Recipient of the HSBC HK Scholarship and Best Poster Presentations in HKU Research Colloquium for Science Undergraduate Students (2018-2019)
Joyce Zhang – Technician (2018-2019)
Darren Chu – Biomed. Engineering FYP Student (2017-2018)
Anthony Tsang – Technician (2016-2019)
Christy Chan – MMed Student (2016-2017)
Collaborators
Gigi Choi
