HKU Industry Forum 2025 - Therapeutics Insights: Bridging Academia, Industry, and Investments

2025年05月07日

HKU Industry Forum 2025

Date:

7 May 2025 (Wednesday)

Time:

9:00 - 13:00	Seminar, panel discussion and pitching sessions
14:00 - 17:00	Pre-scheduled One-on-One meetings
9:00 - 14:00	Invention Showcase

Venue:

CPD-3.28, 3/F, The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong

Registration:

https://forms.office.com/r/gVRnEWPcLB

Agenda

9:00 – 9:20	Morning	Registration
9:20 – 9:25		Welcome Remarks Speaker: Prof. Stephanie Ma, Associate Vice-President (Innovation & Research)
9:25 – 9:30		Introduction Speaker: Mr. Pierre Wang, Managing Director of Versitech Limited
9:30 – 9:55		Innovative Research in the LKS Faculty of Medicine Speaker: Prof. Chak-sing Lau, Dean of LKS Faculty of Medicine
9:55 – 10:20		Innovative Research in the Faculty of Sciences Speaker: Prof. Xuechen Li, Associate Dean of Faculty of Sciences
10:20 – 10:40		Latest Trends in Cancer Therapeutics Speaker: Glenn Hou, Founding Partner of China Insights Consultancy (CIC)
10:40 – 11:10		Tea Break & Poster Showcasing
11:10 – 11:30		How Industry Partner Accelerates the Innovative Drug Development-- Lessons from Simcere Speaker: Dr. Yuanzhi Lao, Senior Director of Simcere Pharmaceutical
11:30 – 11:50		Bridging the Gap between Laboratory and Industry Speaker: Dr. Angela Yang, Vice-President of Canton Biologics (Hong Kong)
11:50 – 12:15		Panel Discussion: The Journey of Transforming Innovations into Products and Impact Modulator: Prof. Alice Wong, Associate Vice-President (Research) Participants: representatives from academics, start-ups, investors and industry
12:15 – 13:00		Investment Pitching Session Speakers: HKU spin-offs
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch	Networking Light Lunch & Poster Showcasing
14:00 – 17:00	Afternoon	Pre-scheduled One-on-One Meeting

About the Forum

This HKU-Industry Forum brings together leading experts in the therapeutics field with the goal of aligning HKU’s research with industry needs and fostering collaborations and commercialization opportunities. This forum serves as a platform for exchanging ideas and building strong connections between HKU and the relevant industry.

Showcased Project Teams include:

Prof. Irene Ng	Professor, Chair of Pathology, Department of Pathology Director, State Key Laboratory of Liver Research (HKU)
Research Interests	Liver cancer - molecular genetics and cell signalling: Delineation of important cell signalling pathways Liver cancer - molecular genetics and cell signalling: Finding and characterizing new genes
Lab Page	https://www.inglab.hku.hk/team

Prof. Hongzhe Sun	Professor, Chair of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
Research Interests	Biological inorganic chemistry Recognition of metallodrugs by biomolecules Structure and function of metal transport and storage proteins Medicinal chemistry and inorganic structural biology
Lab Page	https://bioinorg-chem.hku.hk/

Prof. Yibin Feng	Professor Director, School of Chinese Medicine
Research Interests	Therapeutic principle of Chinese medicinal herbs for cancer, endocrine and metabolic diseases (especially diabetic, hepatic and renal diseases) Pharmacology and toxicology of Chinese medicinal herbs
Lab Page	https://scm.hku.hk/Views/People/English-ProfessorYibinFeng.html

Prof. Wenwei Tu	Professor, Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Research Interests	Tumor Immunology Viral Immunology Transplantation Immunology Humanized Mouse Model
Lab Page	https://paed.hku.hk/en1/Staff/University-Academic-Staff/doctors/Prof-Wenwei-Tu.asp

Prof. Yu Wang	Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy
Research Interests	Functional elucidation of adipokines Drug development and evaluation in obesity-related breast cancer diseases Protein biomarker discovery in obesity and its related diseases Proteomic characterization of adipokines, their structures and signalling pathways
Lab Page	https://www.pharma.hku.hk/en/Our-People/Professoriate-Staff/Professor/Professor-Yu-WANG/Professor-Yu-WANG-Profile

Prof. Weiping Wang	Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy
Research Interests	Nanomedicine Photopharmacology Ocular drug delivery Photoresponsive drug delivery Engineering stimuli-responsive nanomaterials for drug delivery
Lab Page	https://wanglab.org/

Prof. Martin Cheung	Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences
Research Interests	Genetic control of neural crest formation, delamination and migration Live cell imaging of neural crest migratory behavior Molecular mechanisms of melanoma metastasis and drug resistance Modelling neurological diseases by cellular reprogramming
Lab Page	https://www.sbms.hku.hk/staff/martin-chi-hang-cheung

Prof. Jiangwen Zhang	Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Research Interests	Cancer Epigenetics/genetic of cancer Bioinformatics Gene regulatory network Signalling pathways Cancer omics Cancer drug development
Lab Page	https://www.scifac.hku.hk/people/zhang-jiangwen

Prof. Hani EI-Nezamy	Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Research Interests	Food safety and toxicology with special focus on natural carcinogens Transplacental transfer of toxins and disease development later in life Probiotics and the prevention of liver and metabolic syndrome diseases
Lab Page	https://www.hkuelnlab.com/

Prof. Lequan Yu	Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Data Science
Research Interests	Medical Image Analysis Machine Learning Computer Vision AI in healthcare
Lab Page	https://yulequan.github.io/#
Prof. Xiang Lin	Assistant Professor, School of Chinese Medicine
Research Interests	Autoimmune pathogenesis, in particular Sjogren’s disease Disease model establishment: inducible model, humanized model, etc Therapeutic strategy of autoimmunity including natural compounds, cell therapy, combination therapy, etc.
Lab Page	https://scm.hku.hk/Views/People/English-DrLinXiang.html

Dr. Hanjun Zhao	Honorary Assistant Professor from Prof. Kwok-Yung Yuen’s group, School of Clinical Medicine
Research Interests	Broad-spectrum antiviral defensin peptide and drug resistance studies Nanoparticle defective interfering gene studies Influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 virulence studies
Lab Page	https://hkumicro.hku.hk/university-staff/dr-zhao-hanjun/