Research Areas
Cardiology
- Professor CHEUNG Yiu Fai
- Novel echocardiographic imaging technologies
- Cardiac mechanics and long-term outcomes of congenital and paediatric acquired heart diseases
- Vascular mechanics in the young
- Cardio-oncology
- Kawasaki disease
- Genetics and stem cell modeling of paediatric heart diseases
- Professor TSAO Siu Ling Sabrina
- Cardiac arrhythmias
- Cardiac pacing
Community Paediatrics
- Professor IP Patrick
- Childhood infection and vaccination
- Early brain development
- Early intervention
- Underprivileged children
- Safeguarding children
- Child abuse
- Child mental health
- Disability and rehabilitation, public health, health promotion and COVID in children & adolescents, cohort studies, physical activities, growth and nutrition.
Developmental and General Paediatrics
- Professor SEE Wing Shan Queenie
- Childhood obesity
- Growth and puberty
- Childhood thyroid disorder
- Bone health
- Childhood diabetes
- Professor SIU Ka Ka
- Preschool wheeze / Asthma
- Ventilator-associated pneumonia in children
- Sleep disordered breathing in neuromuscular disorders
- Upper airway disorders
- Professor TSO Wan Yee Winnie
- Developmental disorders
- Paediatric acquired brain injury
- Advanced neurodiagnostic and interventional studies
- COVID and Long COVID
- Mental health and psychosocial well-being
- Nutritional and dietary influences on child development
- Digital health and technology
- Cross-cultural and longitudinal studies
Genetics and Genomics
- Professor CHAN Siu Yuen
- Understanding the genetic control of mammalian development and how abnormalities in this process lead to diseases
- Elucidating gene function
- Professor CHUNG Hon Yin Brian
- Medical application of whole-genome technologies
- Clinical genetics & genetic counselling
- Multiomics and human disease
- DNA methylation in common diseases
- Professor YANG Wangling
- Genetic studies on systemic lupus erythematosus
- Molecular diagnosis for Mendelian diseases
- Bioinformatics and genomics
Haematology and Oncology
- Professor CHAN Chi Fung Godfrey
- Tuberous Sclerosis
- Stem Cell
- Neuroblastoma
- Professor CHIANG Kwok Shing Alan
- Role of adaptive and innate immune responses in the control of EBV
- Sequence analysis of EBV strains in EBV infection subjects and EBV-positive malignancies
- Novel therapeutic strategies for EBV-positive lymphoid and epithelial cancers
Immunology, Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- Professor LAU Yu Lung
- Primary immunodeficiencies
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Immune responses to pathogens and modulation of immune cells by apoptotic cells
- Infectious diseases and vaccine study
- Professor LEE Pui Wah Pamela
- Inflammasome biology and immunoregulatory mechanisms of type I interferon signaling
- Primary immunodeficiencies and immunodysregulatory disorders
- Professor ROSA DUQUE, Jaime S
- Inborn errors of immunity
- Vaccinology
- Immune-mediated drug allergy
- Professor TU Wenwai
- Tumour immunology
- Viral immunology
- Transplantation immunology
- Humanized mouse model
Neurology
- Professor CHAN Hoi Shan Sophelia
- Multi-omic diagnosis of neuromuscular diseases
- Stem cell modelling muscular dystrophies
- Neuromuscular diseases with complex medical needs
- Paediatric immune-mediated neurological disorders
- Application of AI to study rare neurological and neuromuscular diseases
