Education Postdoctoral Fellow Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA (1995-1998) PhD Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (1990-1995) MS Peking University, Department of Biology, Beijing, China (1982-1985) BS Peking University, Department of Biology, Beijing, China (1978-1982) Academic and Professional Experience 2016.01 -present Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau 2009.05–2015.12 Associate Professor, organization of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2003.12-2009.05 Visiting Assistant Professor, Bioengineering Graduate Program, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 1998.08–2003.12 Research Associate, Department of Biology, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 1989.09–1990.08 Research Assistant, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 1987.09-1989.08 Research Assistant, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA Services to University of MacauUniversity Level: Chair of Animal Research Ethics of UM (2016-present) Member of the UM Senate (2016-present) Research Committee of UM (2016-present) President of the Presidium of the General Assembly of the Academic Staff Association of UM (2017-2019) Ad Hoc Selection Committee for Emeritus Professor of UM (2017-present) UM-Selection Committee for Macao Fellow (2018-present) UM-Selection Committee for Macao Science and Technology Awards 2018 (Postgraduates) Chairing PhD Oral Defences for various faculty and academic units of UM (2018-present) Investigation Panel for Student Affairs (2019-present) Faculty-level Academic Staff Promotion Advisory Panel of AMSV (2017) Faculty-level Academic Staff Promotion Advisory Panel of ICMS (2019) Faculty Level: Faculty Executive Committee (FEC) (2016-present) Faculty Academic Personnel Committee (2017-present) Faculty Mentor Committee (2018-present) Faculty Contract Renewal Committee (2016-present) Selection Committee for Academic Faculty Recruitment (2019-present) Selection Committee for Macao Science and Technology Awards 2018 (Postgraduates) Selection Committee for UM Macao Talent Program (UMMTP) (2018-present) Selection Committee for Macau Fellow (2016-present) Chair of the Recruitment Committee for Administrative Staff (2018-present) Graduate Studies Committee (2016-present) Equipment Committee of FHS and ICMS (2016-present) Coordinator of Final Year Project (2016-present) Postgraduate Academic Committee (2016-present) Services to International Scientific CommunitiesEditorial Board Editorial Board of Advances in Modern Oncology Research Editorial Board of AIMS Bioengineering Review Editor of Frontiers in Ethnopharmacology Editorial Board of Austin Chemical Engineering Conference Committees Session Chair, Precision Medicine Symposium. June 26-27, 2019, Macau, China Session Chair, 6th Macau Symposium on Biomedical Sciences. June 12-13, 2019, Macau, China Session Chair for the 5th Macau Symposium on Biomedical Sciences. June 8-9, 2018, Macau, China Organizing Committee, 3rd World Conference on the Pharmacology of Natural and Traditional Medicine 2015, July 22-24, Singapore Technical Program Committee (TPC) for MicroTAS 2014, October 26-30, 2014, San Antonio, Texas, USA Session Chair, The 15th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME 2013), December 4-7, 2013, Singapore Coordinator of the NTU-SCBE Symposium on Drug Discovery, Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine at the 6th Annual BioPharma Asia Convention, March 19, 2013, Singapore Session Chair, The HKUST International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Jan 10-12, 2013, Hong Kong Organizing Committee, 2nd International Conference on Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (ICCMB2), August 2010, Singapore Session Chair, International Conference on Recent Development in Chinese Herbal Medicine, January 2010, Singapore Organizing Committee, 7th International Conference of Modernization of Chinese Medicine & Health Products, August 2008, Hong Kong Organizing Committee, 6th International Conference of Modernization of Chinese Medicine & Health Products, August 2007, Hong Kong Reviewer for Grant Applications European Research Council Consolidator Grant Medical Research Council of UK Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, Funding Scheme: GRF / ECS National Research Foundation of Singapore Competitive Research Programme Ministry of Education, Singapore, Academic Research Fund Tier 2 Ministry of Education, Singapore, Academic Research Fund Tier 1 Ministry of Education, Singapore, Translation and Innovation Fund Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Nanyang Technological University, and National Health Group Skin Research Grant Nanyang Technological University iFood Research Grant Course Outlines HSCI4007 Translational Medicine HSCI7002 Biomedical Sciences