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Wai-Yee Chan
Professor
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Biography
Chan Wai-Yee, obtained his B.Sc. (Hon. 1st Class) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1974 and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA in 1977. He served as tenured Assistant to Associate Professor at the Department of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma, USA from 1979-1989, and tenured Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA from 1989 to 2009. He was jointly appointed at the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2001 and found the Laboratory of Clinical Genomics. He was later appointed as Head and Principal Investigator of the Section on Developmental Genomics, NICHD. In June 2009 he became Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Director of the School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine,the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Currently, he is also the Director of the CUHK-Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health Joint Research Laboratory on Stem Cell and Regeneration and Co-Director of the Chinese Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine (CUHK-Jinan University). He holds Adjunct or Visiting Professorships at a number of universities in mainland China, including Zhejiang University, Jinan University, Shandong University, Shenzhen University and Chongqing Medical University. He is also a Distinguished Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Guangzhou, China.
Research Interest
Developmental functional genomics and epigenomics of germ cells, germinal stem cell biology, molecular genetics of human reproductive and endocrine disorder, and non-coding RNAs in stem cell differentiation.