Yuk Ming Dennis Lo#
| Membership Number: | 7310 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | https://cuhk.edu.hk/governance/officers/dennis-lo/english/biography.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2025,04 - Present Chairman, CUHK Medical Centre Limited
- 2025,03 - Present Director, CUHK Medical Centre Limited
- 2025,01 - Present Vice-Chancellor and President, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2009,01 - 2025,01 Chairman, Department of Chemical Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2010,03 - 2018,10 Chief of Service, Department of Chemical Pathology, Prince of Wales Hospital
- 2005,09 - Present Li Ka Shing Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2005,09 - 2025,01 Director, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2003,10 - Present Professor of Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2002,08 - 2025,01 Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2000,10 - 2003,09 Reader, Department of Chemical Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 1997,01 - 2000,10 Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemical Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 1994 - 1997 University Lecturer in Clinical Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Clinical Biochemistry, U.K.
- 1994 - 1997 Fellow, Green College, Oxford, U.K.
- 1993 - 1994 Wellcome Clinician Scientist Fellow, University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, U.K.
- 1990 - 1993 Wellcome Medical Graduate Fellow, University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, U.K.
Fields of Scholarship
- Non-invasive cancer detection
- Cancer biomarkers
- Genetics and medicine
- Liquid biopsy
- Molecular diagnostics
- Non-invasive prenatal testing
Honours and Awards
- 2025 The March of Dimes Richard B. Johnston Jr. MD Prize in Developmental Biology
- 2024 Honorary Fellow, Hong Kong College of Physicians
- 2024 ISLB Innovation In Liquid Biopsy Award
- 2024Taishan Award - Clinical Medical Research Award
- 2024 Inaugural Carlos Simon Excellence in Translational Research Award
- 2024 British Blood Transfusion Society James Blundell Award
- 2024 Jiménez Díaz Lecture Award
- 2023 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (USA)
- 2023 Inaugural Tengchong Science Prize
- 2023 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
- 2023 Member of Beijing Municipal Committee of the CPPCC (China)
- 2022 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
- 2022 International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis (ISPD) Pioneer in Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy Award
- 2021 Listed as “Top 20 Translational Researchers of 2020” by Nature Biotechnology (rank 7th)
- 2021 Royal Medal - Biological Sciences, Royal Society
- 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
- 2021 The ESHG Mendel Award 2021, European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG)
- 2020 Listed as “Top 20 Translational Researchers of 2019” by Nature Biotechnology (rank 4th)
- 2020 Award for Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics, Association for Molecular Pathology
- 2019 Honorary Fellow, Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (Hong Kong)
- 2019 2nd National Award for Excellence in Innovation, China Association for Sci-ence and Technology
- 2019 Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award
- 2019 Listed as “Top 20 Translational Researchers of 2018” by Nature Biotechnology (rank 6th)
- 2019 Award for Biochemical Analytics, German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (DGKL)
- 2018 Men of Hope Award: Health Advocate
- 2018 Association of Chinese Geneticists in America (ACGA) Excellence in Genetics Research Award
- 2018 Listed as “Top 20 Translational Researchers of 2017” by Nature Biotechnology (rank 5th)
- 2018 Listed as “Top 20 Translational Researchers of 2016” by Nature Biotechnology (rank 11th)
- 2017 Elected as Honorary Fellow, Emmanuel College (Cambridge)
- 2017 Honorary Member, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
- 2017 Elected as Fellow ad eundem, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (UK)
- 2017 Justice of the Peace (Hong Kong)
- 2016 Future Science Prize in Life Science
- 2015 Wallace H. Coulter Lecturership Award: the most prestigious award from the American Association of Clinical Chemistry
- 2015 Founding Member and Director of Hong Kong Academy of Sciences
- 2014 King Faisal International Prize for Medicine
- 2014 Presidential Award, International Society of Blood Transfusion
- 2013 Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
- 2013 International Member, US National Academy of Sciences
- 2012 Ernesto Illy Trieste Science Prize, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), presented by President HU Jintao of China
- 2012 AACC-NACB Award for Outstanding Contributions in a Selected Area of Re-search
- 2011 Fellow, Royal Society
- 2011 Silver Bauhinia Star, Hong Kong SAR Government
- 2007 Chemical Pioneer Award, American Institute of Chemists
- 2007 American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Award for Outstanding Contribution for a Publication in the International Journal Clinical Chemistry
- 2006 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London)
- 2006 U.S. National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry (NACB) Distinguished Scientist Award
- 2006 International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) - Abbott Award for Outstanding Contribution to Molecular Diagnostics
- 2005 State Natural Science Award, People’s Republic of China
- 2005 Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (London)
- 2004 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh)
- 2001 Doctor of Medicine (Oxford)
- 1994 Doctor of Philosophy (Oxford)
- 1990 Master of Arts (Cambridge)
- 1989 Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (Oxford)
- 1986 Bachelor of Arts (Hons) (Cambridge)
