Achievements

YAM Laboratory

Students

  • Ran Zhang, PhD student (2025-2029)
  • HKUMed’s Doctoral Entrance Scholarship for Medical Research Excellence, 2025
  • SKLLR (HKU) RPG Scholarship Supporting Scheme, 2025
  • Lai Hok Lam, BBMS FYP student (2024-2025)
  • Poster Presentation Award, SBMS Summer Research Internship, 2024
  • Olivia Wang, PhD student (2023-2027)
  • SKLLR (HKU) RPG Scholarship Supporting Scheme, 2023
  • Claudia Tam, PhD student (2023-2027)
  • Best Poster Presentation Prize, RPG Symposium, LKS Faculty of Medicine, 2025
  • Best Oral Presentation Award, State Key Laboratory of Liver Research Internal Research Meeting, 2025
  • Best Presentation Award, Departmental RPG Retreat, Department of Pathology, 2025
  • Wong Ching Yee Medical Postgraduate Scholarship 2024/2025
  • Best Poster Presentation Award, Asia Pacific Societies for Extracellular Vesicles Conference, 2025
  • Poster Presentation Award, Hong Kong Inter-University Postgraduate Symposium in Biochemical and Life Sciences, 2025
  • Travel Award, The Liver Week, 2025
  • Poster Presentation Merit Award, HKU Research Postgraduate Symposium, 2025
  • Best Poster Presentation Prize, RPG Symposium, LKS Faculty of Medicine, 2024
  • Young Talent Award of Rohto Awards Hong Kong, 2023
  • HKU Presidential PhD Scholarship, 2023
  • Charlotte Lai, PhD student (2023-2027)
  • Poster Presentation Award, Hong Kong Inter-University Postgraduate Symposium in Biochemical and Life Sciences, 2025
  • Travel Award, The Liver Week, 2025
  • Best Oral Presentation Award, State Key Laboratory of Liver Research Internal Research Meeting, 2024
  • SKLLR (HKU) RPG Scholarship Supporting Scheme, 2022
  • Kelly Lee, MPhil student (2022-2024)
  • Best Poster Presentation Prize, RPG Symposium, LKS Faculty of Medicine, 2023
  • Travel Award, The Liver Week, 2023
  • Li Chen, PhD student (2022-2025)
  • Best Presentation Award, Departmental RPG Retreat, Department of Pathology, 2025
  • HKUMed’s Doctoral Entrance Scholarship for Medical Research Excellence, 2022
  • Nicholas Lau, BBMS FYP student (2022-2023)
  • Undergraduate Research Fellowship Programme 2022-2023 – Research Internship Award
  • Zhixian Chen, PhD student (2021-2025)
  • University Postgraduate Fellowship, 2021
  • Samuel Wong, PhD student (2021-2025)
  • Chan To Haan Prize for Research Postgraduate Students in Pathology, 2024/2025
  • YS and Christabel Lung Postgraduate Scholarship, 2024/2025
  • For Our Future Innovation and Technology Scholarship, 2024/2025
  • Best Presentation Award, Departmental RPG Retreat, Department of Pathology, 2024
  • HKU Foundation Publication Award for Research Postgraduate Students, 2024
  • Best Poster Presentation Award, Hong Kong Inter-University Postgraduate Symposium in Biochemical and Life Sciences, 2024
  • YS and Christabel Lung Postgraduate Scholarship, 2023/2024
  • Researcher Scholarship, International Society for Extracellular Vesicles Annual Meeting, 2024
  • Best Poster Presentation Award, The 7th National Conference on Extracellular Vesicles, 2023
  • Poster Presentation Award, Hong Kong Inter-University Postgraduate Symposium in Biochemical and Life Sciences, 2023
  • YS and Christabel Lung Postgraduate Scholarship, 2022/2023
  • HKU Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award, 2022
  • Virtual Conference Support Scheme, APASL Liver Week, 2022
  • Best Poster Presentation Award, RPG Symposium, LKS Faculty of Medicine, 2022
  • Best Oral Presentation Award, State Key Laboratory of Liver Research Internal Research Meeting, 2022
  • Most Innovative Award, Departmental RPG Retreat, Department of Pathology, 2022
  • Foreign Investigator Award, The Liver Week, 2021
  • Cherlie Yeung, PhD student (2020-2024)
  • Best Poster Presentation Award, Hong Kong Inter-University Postgraduate Symposium in Biochemical and Life Sciences, 2024
  • Chan To Haan Prize for Research Postgraduate Students in Pathology, 2023/2024
  • Wong Ching Yee Medical Postgraduate Scholarship, 2023/2024
  • Best Poster Presentation Prize, RPG Symposium, LKS Faculty of Medicine, 2023
  • Best Presentation Award, Departmental RPG Retreat, Department of Pathology, 2023
  • Poster Presentation Award, Hong Kong Inter-University Postgraduate Symposium in Biochemical and Life Sciences, 2023
  • Poster Presentation Award, Asia Pacific Societies for Extracellular Vesicles (APSEV) Conference, 2023
  • The Tigris Educational Fund, Tech Dragon Limited, 2023
  • HKU Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award, 2022
  • Virtual Conference Support Scheme, APASL Liver Week, 2022
  • Best Poster Award, Annual Scientific Meeting of Hong Kong Society of Flow Cytometry, 2022
  • Wong Ching Yee Medical Postgraduate Scholarship, 2021/2022
  • Best Poster Presentation Award, RPG Symposium, LKS Faculty of Medicine, 2021
  • Best Presentation Award, Departmental RPG Retreat, Department of Pathology, 2021
  • Poster Presentation Award, Hong Kong Inter-University Symposium in Biomedical Sciences, 2021
  • Foreign Investigator Award, The Liver Week, 2021
  • Best Poster Presentation Prize, RPG Symposium, LKS Faculty of Medicine, 2020
  • SKLLR (HKU) RPG Scholarship Supporting Scheme, 2020
  • Angel Ma, PhD student (2016-2020)
  • Best Poster Presentation Award, RPG Symposium, Faculty of Medicine, 2018
  • SKLLR (HKU) RPG Scholarship Supporting Scheme, 2016
  • Blue Ocean Basic Medical Research Fund, 2016
  • Bonnie Liu, PhD student (2016-2020)
  • University Postgraduate Fellowship, 2016
  • Sze Keong Tey, PhD student (2011-2015)
  • The Tigris Educational Fund, Tech Dragon Limited, 2015
  • Best Presentation Award, RPG Symposium, Faculty of Medicine, 2014
  • Best Presentation Award, RPG Retreat, Department of Pathology, 2013
  • Edith Tse, PhD student (2008-2011)
  • Best Presentation Award, 8th RPG Retreat, Department of Pathology, 2010
  • Best Presentation Award, 9th RPG Retreat, Department of Pathology, 2010
  • YS and Christabel Lung Postgraduate Scholarship, 2008/2009
  • Young Investigator Award, Hong Kong International Cancer Congress, 2008
  • Lo Kong Chan, PhD student (2004-2008)
  • Best Presentation Award, RPG Retreat, Department of Pathology, 2008
  • Outstanding Oral Presentation Award (Cancer session), RPG Symposium, Faculty of Medicine, 2007

Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Cherlie Yeung (2025)
  • Oral Presentation Award (Second Place), Hong Kong Inter-University Postdoctoral Symposium in Biochemical Sciences, 2025
  • Xiaoxin Zhang (2023-present)
  • Best Oral Presentation Award, Hong Kong Scholar Annual Symposium, 2024
  • Yi Xu (2021-present)
  • The Best Oral Presentation Award, The 7th National Conference on Extracellular Vesicles, 2023
  • Best Oral Presentation Award, Hong Kong Scholar Annual Symposium, 2022
  • Sze Keong Tey (2015-2021)
  • HKU Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award, 2022
  • Travel Award, The Liver Week, 2017
  • Travel Award, The Liver Week, 2016
  • Xiaowen Mao (2014 – 2021), RAP (2021-2023)
  • HKU Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award, 2022

Others

  • Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award 2024
  • Wang X, Huang H, Sze KMF, Wang J, Tian L, Lu J, Tsui YM, Chung CYS, Ma HT, Lee E, Chen A, Lee JMF, Wang Y, Yam JWP, Cheung TT, Guan XY, Ng IOL*. S100A10 promotes HCC via extracellular vesicles and regulating their protein cargos. Gut 2023, 72(7):1370-1384. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2022-327998.
  • Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award 2022
  • Tey SK, Wong SWK, Chan JYT, Mao XW, Ng TH, Yeung CLS, Leung Z, Fung HL, Tang AHN, Wong DKH, Mak LY, Yuen MF, Sin CF, Ng IOL, Ma SKY, Lee TKW, Cao PH, Zhong K, Gao Y, Yun JP, Yam JWP*. Patient pIgR-enriched extracellular vesicles drive cancer stemness, tumorigenesis and metastasis in hepatocellular carcinoma. Journal of Hepatology 2022, 76(4): 883-895, doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.12.005.