CUHK’s Next President: Lo Yuk-ming Recommended for the Position

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has announced that Lo Yuk-ming, associate dean of the Faculty of Medicine, has been recommended as the next president of the university. The President Selection Committee established by the University Council made the recommendation, which will be discussed at a special meeting of the Board of Trustees on Friday.

Lo Yuk-ming will meet with CUHK members on Thursday to exchange opinions, and the school board of directors will hold a special meeting the following day to consider the recommendation of the selection committee.

CUHK has praised Lo Yuk-ming as an internationally renowned scholar with outstanding academic achievements, having won numerous international awards. He is currently the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Head of the Department of Chemical Pathology, and Chair Professor of Medicine. He is also the Director of the Institute of Health Sciences of CUHK and the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Translational Oncology (Chinese University of Hong Kong).

Lo Yuk-ming, 61, has worked at CUHK for 27 years. After graduating from secondary school, he pursued further studies in the UK. In 1997, he returned to Hong Kong and joined the Faculty of Medicine at CUHK. His research areas include genes and medicine, DNA testing, and chemical pathology. He has developed non-invasive prenatal testing technology, which has been widely used in over 60 countries. Recently, his team has applied this technology to cancer detection, enabling non-invasive detection of various types of cancer genomes, including nasopharyngeal cancer and liver cancer.

Lo Yuk-ming’s scientific research achievements have earned him numerous international awards, including the Scientific Breakthrough Award and the Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate Award. He is also the first Chinese to win The Royal Society’s Royal Medal in biology, making him considered by the academic community to be the Hong Kong person “closest to the Nobel Prize.” He is a founding member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a foreign academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.

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