Professor Yuk Ming Dennis Lo

Yuk Ming Dennis Lo received his B.A. honors and preclinical medical training at the University of Cambridge in 1986, and his M.B.B.S. at the University of Oxford in 1989. Following that, he obtained a Master of Arts from Cambridge 1990, and a Doctorate of Philosophy 1994 and a Doctorate of Medicine 2001 from Oxford University. He started his academic career at Oxford as a Medical Graduate Fellow in 1990-1993, then as a Clinician Scientist Fellow in 1993-1994, followed by appointments as a University Lecturer in Clinical Biochemistry and a Fellow at Green College in 1994-1997. In 1997, he returned to Hong Kong and joined the Faculty of Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong CUHK and progressed to full professorship in 2003. He is currently the Director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, a Li Ka Shing Professor of Medicine, a Professor of Chemical Pathology, the Chairman and Chief-of-Service of the Department of Chemical Pathology at CUHK and Prince of Wales Hospital, and an Associate Dean for Research of the CUHK Faculty of Medicine.

He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 2004, the Royal College of Pathologists, UK 2005 and the Royal College of Physicians of London 2006, an Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Pathologists 2011, and an Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2013. He is also an Honorary Professor at Nanjing Medical University, an Honorary Professor at Sun Yat-sen University in China, a Trustee of the Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong, and a former President of the Hong Kong Society of Clinical Chemistry. He also serves in a number of academic and medical committees and councils.

Professor Dennis Lo has authored and co-authored more than 290 publications in international journals, and holds numerous patents in molecular diagnostics. His outstanding achievements have earned him numerous prestigious prizes and research awards. His prizes and honors including: State Natural Science Award from the State Council of China in 2005, the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine IFCC – Abbott Award for Outstanding Contribution to Molecular Diagnostics in 2006, the US National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry Distinguished Scientist Award in 2006, Croucher Senior Medical Research in 2006.

This biography was written in the year the prize was awarded.