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
  • Lena Cui, PhD student (2024-2028)
  • Travel Award, The Liver Week 2026
  • Olivia Wang, PhD student (2023-2027)
  • Travel Award, The Liver Week 2026
  • SKLLR (HKU) RPG Scholarship Supporting Scheme 2023
  • Claudia Tam, PhD student (2023-2027)
  • Travel Award, The Liver Week 2026
  • 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)
  • Travel Award, The Liver Week 2026
  • 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

  • Tony Ng (2020-present)
  • Travel Award, The Liver Week 2026
  • 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.