Editorship:

• Associate Editor, Clinical and Molecular Hepatology (CMH) (IF: 16.9) (2024 – now)
• Editorial Board Member, Hepatoma Research (IF: 1.2) (2024-now)
• Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports (IF: 3.9) (2024-now)
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology (JCTH) (IF: 4.2) (2021-now)
• Editorial Board Member, World Journal of Gastroenterology (IF: 5.4) (2020-now)
• Topical Advisory Panel Members, Cancers (IF: 4.4)(2023-now)

Research work in our lab is generously funded by:

• Research Grants Council-
• RGC General Research Fund –
• RGC GRF 2025/26 (PI)
• RGC GRF 2024/25 (PI)
• RGC GRF 2023/24 (PI)
• RGC GRF 2022/23 (PI)
• RGC GRF 2021/22 (PI)
• RGC GRF 2020/21 (PI)
• RGC GRF 2019/20 (PI)
• RGC GRF 2018/19 (PI)
• RGC GRF 2017/18 (PI)
• RGC GRF 2015/16 (PI)
• RGC GRF 2014/15 (PI)
• RGC GRF 2013/14 (PI)
• RGC GRF 2011/12 (PI)
• RGC Collaborative Research Fund –
• RGC CRF 2024/25 (PC)
• RGC RIF 2024/25 (Co-PI)
• RGC TBRS 2024/25 (Co-PI)
• RGC RIF 2022/23 (PC)
• RGC RIF 2020/21 (Co-PI)
• RGC RIF 2018/19 (Co-PI)
• RGC CRF 2018/19 (Co-PI)
• RGC TBRS 2016/17 (Co-PI)
• RGC CRF 2009/10 (Co-I)
• Food and Heath Bureau
• HMRF 2017/18 (PI)
• HMRF 2016/17 (PI)
• HMRF 2015/16 (PI)
• HMRF 2013/14 (PI)
• National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
• NSFC General Program 2020/21 (PI)
• NSFC General Program 2018/19 (PI)
• NSFC General Program 2016/17 (Co-I)
• NSFC General Program 2012/13 (PI)
• Innovation Technology Fund
• ITF 2023/24 (PI)
• ITF MRP 2021/22 (Co-I)
• ITF 2020/21 (Co-I) x 2
• ITF 2016/17 (Co-I)
• ITF 2014/15 (Co-I)
• ITF 2013/14 (PI)
• Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• ABCT Excellence Award 2025 (Research Output)
• Faculty Team Teaching Award 2025
• ABCT Excellence Award 2024 (Teaching)
• ABCT Excellence Award 2023 (Research Output)
• Faculty Award for Outstanding Researchers (2022) (PI)
• Strategic Importance Project Fund (2020/2021) (Co-PI)
• Strategic Importance Project Fund (2020/2021) (PI)
• State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery
• Biopharma collaboration
•  Arius Inc (2009)

Awards to staff and students:

• Staff
• Shakeel Khan (Postdoctoral Fellow)
• Young Investigator Award & 2nd Best Oral Presentation in APASL STC Pakistan 2025
• Eunice Yuen Ting Lau (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2017)
• Abstract award – Cancer Stem cell Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, USA (2016)
• Students
• Miss Melody  Yusong Li (PhD student, 2025-present)
• Best Poster Presentation Award, 6th ABCT Research Postgraduate Symposium in the Biology Discipline (2025)
• Miss Ria Chen Rui Yuan (PhD student, 2024-present)
• People Choice’s Award, 6th ABCT Research Postgraduate Symposium in the Biology Discipline (2025)
• Miss Rainbow Wing Hei Leung (PhD student, 2022-present)
• ABCT Excellence Award 2025 (Outstanding Postgraduate Student)(2025)
• Best Oral Presentation Award, 6th ABCT Research Postgraduate Symposium in the Biology Discipline (2025)
• Reaching Out Award under the HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund (2024/25)
• ABCT Excellence Award 2024 (Outstanding Postgraduate Student)(2024)
• Best Presentation Award, PolyU Research Student Conference (PRSC) 2024
• Travel Award, The Liver Week 2024, June 27-29, 2024, Seoul, Korea) (2024)
• Best Poster Presentation Award, 4th ABCT Research Postgraduate Symposium in the Biology Discipline (2023)
• Mr Muliawan Gregory Kenneth (PhD student, 2022-present)
• Best Paper Award, PolyU Research Student Conference (PRSC 2025)
• Abstract Award, FASEB Cellular Plasticity in Cancer, Hong Kong (2025)
• Travel Award, The Liver Week 2024, June 27-29, 2024, Seoul, Korea) (2024)
• Best Poster Presentation Award, 4th ABCT Research Postgraduate Symposium in the Biology Discipline (2023)
• Miss Mandy Sze Man Chan (PhD student, 2022-present)
• Best Presentation Award, The Liver Week 2025, May 29-31, 2025, Gyeongju, Korea (2025)
• Travel Award, The Liver Week 2025, May 29-31, 2025, Gyeongju, Korea (2025)
• Best Poster Presentation Award, 5th ABCT Research Postgraduate Symposium in the Biology Discipline (2024)
• People Choice’s Award, 5th ABCT Research Postgraduate Symposium in the Biology Discipline (2024)
• Best Poster Presentation Award, 4th ABCT Research Postgraduate Symposium in the Biology Discipline (2023)
• Miss Catherine YuJia Gu (PhD student, 2021-present)
• Winner of FS three-minute Thesis (3MT) Competition (2024)
• Winner of ABCT three-minute Thesis (3MT) Competition (2024)
• Best Oral Presentation Award, 4th ABCT Research Postgraduate Symposium in the Biology Discipline (2023)
• Best E-Poster Presentation Award, 3rd ABCT Research Postgraduate Symposium in the Biology Discipline (2022)
• Miss Candy Chin Ngok Chu (MPhil student, 2021-present)
• Travel Award, Annual Congress of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) (2023)
• Best E-Poster Presentation Award, 3rd ABCT Research Postgraduate Symposium in the Biology Discipline (2022)
• Miss Martina Mang Leng Lei (PhD student, 2020-present)
• Macao Science and Technology Awards-Scientific and Technological R&D Award for Postgraduates 2025
• PolyU PhD Thesis Award 2024 – Outstanding Award (2024)
• FS Outstanding PhD Thesis Award, PolyU (2024)
• ABCT Excellence Award 2023 (Outstanding Postgraduate Student)(2023)
• Best Presentation Award, The 13th Asia-Pacific Primary Liver Cancer Expert Meeting (APPLE) (2023)
• Young Investigator Award, The 13th Asia-Pacific Primary Liver Cancer Expert Meeting (APPLE) (2023)
• Tigris Education Fund, Graduate Student Travel Scholarship, Tech Dragon Limited (2023)
• Best Presentation Award, PolyU Research Student Conference (PRSC) 2023
• Higher Education (Merit scholarship) from Education and Youth Development Bureau, Macau (2022/2023)
• Best Oral Presentation Award, 3rd ABCT Research Postgraduate Symposium in the Biology Discipline (2022)
• Travel Award, The 31st Conference of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of Liver, March 30- April 3, 2022, Coex, Seoul, Korea) (2022)
• Miss Katherine Po Sin Chung (MPhil student, 2019-2021)
• Reaching Out Award under the HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund (2020/21)
• Dr. Etienne Ho Kit Mok (PhD student, 2018-2021)
• FS Outstanding PhD Thesis Award, PolyU (2022)
• Best Presentation Award, 2nd ABCT Research Postgraduate Symposium in the Biology Discipline (2021)
• Best Presentation Award, The Liver Week 2020, The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver (KASL), Annual meeting of The Korean Association for the study of Liver, August 13-14, 2020, Korea (2020)
• Dr. Nicole Pui Yu Ho (PhD student, 2016-2019)
• Travel Award, The Liver Week 2018, The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver (KASL), Annual meeting of The Korean Association for the study of Liver, June 14-16, 2018, Seoul, Korea) (2018)
• Travel Award, The Liver Week 2017, The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver (KASL), (selected for plenary lecture). Annual meeting of The Korean Association for the study of Liver, June 22-24, 2017, Seoul, Korea (2017)
• Travel Award, The 76th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cancer Association, September 28-30, 2017, Yokohama, Japan (2017)
• Miss Shilpa Gurung (MPhil student, 2016-2018)
• Travel Award, The Liver Week 2018, The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver (KASL), (selected for Oral Presentation). Annual meeting of The Korean Association for the study of Liver, June 14-16, 2018, Seoul, Korea) (2018)
• Best Poster Oral Presentation Award, The Liver Week 2018, The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver (KASL), Annual meeting of The Korean Association for the study of Liver, June 22-24, 2018, Incheon, Korea (2018)
• Dr. Yik Ling Cheng (MPhil student, 2014-2016)
• Best Poster Presentation, The Hong Kong Inter-University Postgraduate Symposium on Life Science 2015 (2015)
• Wong Ching Yee Medical Scholarship, HKU (2015-2016)
• Li Ka Shing Prize for the best MPhil thesis, HKU (2016-17)
• Dr. Kin Fai Ma (MPhil student, 2014-2016)
• Best Poster Presentation, The Hong Kong Inter-University Postgraduate Symposium on Life Science 2015.
• Tigris Education Fund, Graduate Student Travel Scholarship, Tech Dragon Limited (2015)
• YS and Christabel Lung Scholarship, HKU (2014-2015)
• Miss Jessica Lo (MPhil student, 2012-2014)
• Wong Ching Yee Medical Scholarship, HKU (2013-2014)
• Li Ka Shing Prize for the best MPhil thesis, HKU (2013-14)
  Dr. Eunice Yuen Ting Lau (PhD student, 2011-2014)
• Outstanding Poster Presentation, 17th Postgraduate Symposium, HKU (2012)
• Tigris Education Fund, Graduate Student Travel Scholarship, Tech Dragon Limited (2013)
• Travel Award from the Korean Association for the Study of Liver (2013)
• Best Presentation Award, 19th Annual Meeting of the Korean Association for the Study of the Liver, (2013)
• Young Investigator Award, 19th Hong Kong International Cancer Congress, Hong Kong (2013)
• YS and Christabel Lung Scholarship, HKU (2013-2014)
• Joseph Shuk-Cho Lung Memorial Scholarship, HKU (2013-2014)
• Best Presentation Award, Shanghai Joint Forum for Liver Disease, State Key Laboratory for Liver Research, Shanghai, China (2015)
• Faculty Outstanding Research Output Prize, Faculty of Medicine, HKU (2018)
• Dr. Chi Ho Cheung (MPhil student, 2009-2011)
• Young Investigator Award, 17th Hong Kong International Cancer Congress, Hong Kong (2010)
• YS and Christabel Lung Scholarship, HKU (2010)
• Award for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student, Graduate School, HKU (2010-2011)
• Dr. Antonia Castilho (MPhil student, 2008-2010)
• Tigris Education Fund, Graduate Student Travel Scholarship, Tech Dragon Limited (2009)
• Wong Ching Yee Medical Scholarship, HKU (2010)
• YS and Christabel Lung Scholarship, HKU (2009)
• Award for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student, Graduate School, HKU (2009-2010)