Mr Wong Chi-ngai is currently an undergraduate student majoring in cell and molecular biology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and intends to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Neurosciences at Stanford University in the United States. 

This year, he has been selected as one of two recipients of the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowships for Overseas Studies 2024/25 out of 241 applications received. This Fund is committed to providing opportunities for young and more mature people to continue their education for the betterment of Hong Kong, and competition for overseas fellowships and scholarships for the 2024/25 academic year was extremely keen. The maximum value of the scholarship for each awardee is HK$300,000 per year, covering university fees and living expenses.

 Congratulations to Mr. WONG Chi Ngai!

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Dr. Nick So received the Bachelor of Science in Cell and Molecular Biology with first class honor from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2016 and his Dr. rer. nat. in Biology with summa cum laude from the University of Goettingen in 2019. He was awarded with the Otto Hahn Medal and the Otto Hahn Award from the Max Planck Society in 2020.

This March, Dr. Nick So was awarded as the Innovators Under 35 (TR35) China 2022 by MIT Technology Review. This award is granted to young innovators in frontier technology, including world-known scientists and entrepreneurs like Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both co-founders of Google, and Feng Zhang, a pioneer in the development of CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing. It was awarded to Dr. Nick So for his recent discovery of the deficiency of a motor protein, KIFC1, in human eggs that causes frequent chromosome missegregations and aneuploidies and the proposal of a therapeutic strategy to overcome this.

Congratulations to Dr. Nick So, again!

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Dr. Nick So received his Bachelor of Science in Cell and Molecular Biology with first class honor from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2016. Afterwards, he was awarded the Croucher Scholarship for Doctoral Study to pursue his doctoral research on egg cell biology under Dr. Melina Schuh. In 2019, Nick received his Dr. rer. nat. in Biology with summa cum laude from the Unviersity of Goettingen. Currently, he is supported by the Max Planck Croucher Postdoctoral Fellowship to develop new model systems for studying different stages of female germline development, jointly under Dr. Melina Schuh and Dr. Ufuk Günesdogan.

More recently, Nick has been awarded the Otto Hahn Medal and the Otto Hahn Award from the Max Planck Society for “ground-breaking discoveries on the mechanism and machinery underlying chromosome segregation during mammalian egg cell development." With the Otto Hahn Award, Nick will be able to setup his own research group at any Max Planck Institute of choice for up to 5 years.

Congratulations to Nick, again!

 

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