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Professor Häusser has joined the School of Biomedical Sciences as Director of School of Biomedical Sciences and Chair Professor. He has been conferred the title of 'Professor of Neuroscience'.

Professor Häusser obtained a BSc in Physiology from the University of British Columbia and a DPhil in Physiological Sciences from the University of Oxford. He did postdoctoral work at the Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg (with Nobel Laureate Bert Sakmann) and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris before starting his own laboratory at University College London. At UCL, he held the post of Professor of Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow since 2011. In 2017 he helped to found the International Brain Laboratory, a global collaboration of experimental and theoretical laboratories working together to understand the brain-wide mechanisms of decision-making.

In recognition of his distinguished contributions to neuroscience, he was elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2010, the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2012, the Royal Society in 2015 and Academia Europaea in 2016. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious prizes, awards and grants including the Feldberg Prize, the Casella Prize and two ERC Advanced Grants. He was co-Chief Editor of Current Opinion in Neurobiology and has served on selection panels for numerous prestigious organizations including the Royal Society, HHMI, the NIH Brain Initiative and the European Union. He is an awardee of the HKSAR Government Global STEM Professorship Scheme. 

Professor Jia joined the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy and School of Chinese Medicine in February 2024 as Professor. He has been conferred the title of ‘Professor, Chair of Molecular and Systems Metabolism’.

Professor Jia completed his M.S. and Ph.D. in radiopharmaceutical science at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His current research focuses on unraveling the intricate molecular mechanisms that connect metabolic disruptions in gut microbial-host co-metabolism to the development of metabolic disorders and gastrointestinal cancer.

Professor Jia's lab operates a highly esteemed metabolomics platform. Over the past two decades, his lab has built a cutting-edge metabolomics programme that focuses on the quantitative profiling of endogenous small-molecule metabolites and trace elements from various biological specimens. 

Professor Lau joined the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy and School of Chinese in April 2024 as Professor. She obtained her BPharm and PhD degrees from King's College London, University of London, and is a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in UK. She has previously worked in the School of Pharmacy at University of Bradford, UK, and also School of Pharmacy, and Institute of Chinese Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is an academic pharmacist with almost 30 years' expertise in Pharmacology of herbal medicines research, focusing on anti-cancer herbs/natural products, the beneficial herb-drug combinations and integrative medicine. She is currently the President of Good Practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Association (GP-TCM RA) and Secretary General of the Consortium for Globalization of Chinese Medicine (CGCM). 

Professor Hsin joined the Department of Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine in November 2023 as Clinical Associate Professor of Practice. Professor Hsin is a graduate from Cambridge University, United Kingdom. He underwent Specialist Cardiothoracic Training at the Royal Brompton, London Chest and St Bartholomew's Hospitals in London UK. He was the Medtronic Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, and underwent Lung Transplant Fellowship at the Toronto General Hospital, Canada. He received his MD from Cambridge University.

Professor Hsin is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (Surgery). He is also a member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (USA).

Professor Hsin's clinical interests include benign and malignant diseases of the chest, particularly lung cancer. His research interests include lung cancer, lung transplantation and metabolomics.  He has over 100 publications and is a recipient of the LKS Faculty of Medicine Outstanding Research Output Award in February 2024. 

Professor Cheung joined the Critical Care Medicine Unit, School of Clinical Medicine in March 2024 as Clinical Assistant Professor of Practice. He graduated with an MBBS and a Master of Research in Medicine degrees from the University of Hong Kong in 2016 and has since worked in several major acute hospitals in Hong Kong, including Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Prince of Wales Hospital and Queen Mary Hospital. Dr Cheung obtained the European Diploma of Intensive Care Medicine (EDIC) in 2023 and completed his specialty training in intensive care medicine in 2024. He is currently furthering his education by pursuing a part-time LLM degree in medical law and ethics at the University of Edinburgh. Dr Cheung has a keen interest in improving critical care organisation, ICU rehabilitation and end-of-life care.

Professor Cheung joined the Department of Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine in November 2023 as Clinical Assistant Professor. Professor Cheung graduated from the University of Hong Kong and joined the Department of Surgery at Queen Mary Hospital and Tung Wah Hospital after internship. He obtained his Fellowship in General Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and was awarded the Li Shield's Medal by the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong.

Since 2023, Professor Cheung has been working in the Division of Breast Surgery in the Department of Surgery, SClinMed under Professor Ava Kwong's leadership. 

Professor Cheung is actively involved in medical education. He has completed a Master of Education in 2021 and contributes his expertise to various educational committees and leads several educational studies.

Professor Fung joined the Department of Surgery (Division of Paediatric Surgery), School of Clinical Medicine in February 2024 as Clinical Assistant Professor. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong with Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 2013 and received his surgical training at the Department of Surgery, Queen Mary Hospital. He became a member of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2017 and obtained the Diploma of Child Health from the University of Sydney in the same year. He pursued further training in paediatric surgery and urology and attained his fellowship qualification in March 2023. 

Professor Fung is an active academic surgeon and is the principal investigator in multiple prospective clinical trials, as well as basic science research projects with board academic interests including minimally invasive surgery in paediatric surgery, paediatric urology, oncology as well as translational research. He also has close collaboration with international research groups and is currently the International representative of British Urology Researchers in Surgical Training (BURST) Research Collaborative. To date, he has published more than 40 articles and abstract proceedings in peer-reviewed journals including GUT, British Journal of Surgery, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Surgical Endoscopy, Journal of Paediatric Surgery, Journal of Paediatric Urology, Paediatric Blood and Cancer, etc. as well as key international meetings of paediatric surgery. He is currently serving as the Chairman of the Scientific Committee and Member of the Publication Committee of Asian Association of Pediatric Surgeons; as well as the Publication Committee of Pacific Association of Pediatric Surgeons. He is an Editorial Board Member of BMC Surgery. Professor Fung has also been the invited speaker on various paediatric surgical topics in the media, local institutions as well as regional meetings.

Professor Fung is currently the Vice Chairperson of the Younger Fellow Chapter, The College of Surgeons of Hong Kong as well as Council Member of the Hong Kong Society of Paediatric Surgery. He also serves in the Axillary Medical Service as Senior Grade V Officer.

Professor Fung joined the Department of Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine in January 2024 as Clinical Assistant Professor. Professor Fung is Chief of Division of Endocrine Surgery at Queen Mary Hospital. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 2012 and joined the Department of Surgery at Queen Mary Hospital since then.

Professor Fung's clinical and research interests focus on benign and malignant thyroid conditions, parathyroid diseases, adrenal and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours. He has extensive experience in using radiofrequency ablation and microwave ablation to treat various thyroid conditions including thyroid nodules and Graves' disease. He has been invited as a speaker at various international conferences and workshops. His other interests include the clinical application of laryngeal ultrasongraphy of vocal cords.

Professor Fung is a member of the Hong Kong Association of Endocrine Surgeons and Asian Association of Endocrine Surgeons, and associate editor of Surgical Practice.

Professor Hildebrand joined the Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, School of Clinical Medicine in February 2024 as Assistant Professor. He specialises in ethics and moral psychology. Professor Hildebrand graduated from the University of Oxford in 2018 with a DPhil in philosophy. Following that, he held a postdoctoral fellowship in Oxford and taught philosophy of public policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, then taught at the University of the Fraser Valley before joining The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at HKU as a Research Assistant Professor in 2020. There he obtained a General Research Fund (GRF) examining the relationship between empathy, moral judgment, and the ethics of forgiveness.

Professor Kuk joined the Department of Ophthalmology In June 2024 as Clinical Assistant Professor of Practice. He was born and raised in the UK, attended Harrow School as an academic and music scholar and studied medicine (MBBS, 2011)  at Imperial College London intercalating at the Imperial College Business School (Healthcare Management BSc, 2009). 
 
He completed his Foundation Year Programme in the NHS and started his ophthalmology career at University Hospital Aintree (Liverpool UK, 2013). During this time, he passed the HK Licentiate Exam and subsequently returned to HK to fulfil his internship and continued his ophthalmology training in the Hospital Authority's HK East Cluster at Tung Wah Eastern Hospital and Pamela Youde Hospital. 
 
Upon obtaining his Fellowship of the College of Ophthalmology Hong Kong (2022) he became team head for the oculoplastic and orbital surgery unit. Now as a part of HKU he will continue leading in this area of expertise whilst engaging with the student population to which he previously served as Honorary Clinical Assistant Professor of the Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit.

Professor Lau joined the Department of Anaesthesiology, School of Clinical Medicine in November 2023 as Clinical Assistant Professor of Practice. She graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 2011 and received her specialty training in Anaesthesiology in the Prince of Wales Hospital Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. She attained her Fellowship in Hong Kong (FHKCA) in 2018 and in Canada (FRCPC) in 2019, and was awarded first prize for the Hong Kong intermediate and final fellowship examinations, as well as the formal project prize during her training. Professor Lau has clinical expertise in Cardiothoracic and Obstetric anaesthesia. Her academic interests are in simulation training and resuscitation. She currently serves as a Council member and Honorary Treasurer for the Society of Anaesthetists of Hong Kong.

Professor Li joined the Department of Pathology, School of Clinical Medicine in April 2024 as Clinical Assistant Professor. He graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2014 and completed his training in Anatomical Pathology, obtaining Fellowships in the Hong Kong College of Pathologists, the Royal College of Pathologists (United Kingdom) and the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, from which he received the first Dr Annabelle Mahar Anatomical Pathology Trainee Memorial Prize. Professor Li is currently an editorial board member of the journal Cytopathology, and a recipient of the Rising Star of Cytology award from Cancer Cytopathology. His research interests are in Gynecological Pathology and Cytopathology, and the application of immunohistochemical markers, molecular diagnostics, digital pathology and biostatistics on improving biopsy diagnosis and prognostication.

Professor Liang joined the School of Biomedical Sciences in November 2023 as Assistant Professor. He received dual BSc degrees from Fudan University and University of Birmingham with first-class honours. During his undergraduate years, he was also awarded a one-year exchange fellowship at University of California, Berkeley. He later earned his PhD degree in Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge and continued his postdoctoral research at Cambridge, focusing on structural and molecular investigation of human DNA double-strand break repair. His current research focuses on protein and nucleic acid interactions, human DNA damage response & repair, and relevant structure-guided drug discovery.

Professor Lu joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Clinical Medicine in January 2024 as Assistant Professor. He holds a PhD in bioinformatics and cancer biology from the Ovarian Cancer Action Research Centre at Imperial College London, UK. Following his doctoral studies, he pursued postdoctoral training in cancer imaging and theranostics at the Imperial College Comprehensive Cancer Imaging Centre. Professor Lu's research focuses on cancer genomics, tumour-microenvironment interactions, and the development of antibody-based therapies for gynaecological cancer.

Professor Tam joined the Department of Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine in April 2024 as Clinical Assistant Professor. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 2010 and became a Fellow in General Surgery in 2018. Professor Tam has special interest in Vascular Surgery, leading him to join the Department of Surgery at Queen Mary Hospital in 2020 to further specialise in this field. He successfully completed sub-specialty training in Vascular Surgery through the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong as well as the Exit Assessment in Vascular Surgery for Transition Fellows in 2023. His academic interests include treatments to complex aortic diseases and deep vein thrombosis.

Professor Teo joined the Department of Medicine, SClinMed in December 2023 as Clinical Assistant Professor. He graduated from HKU in 2009 and his clinical expertise is in stroke and neurocritical care. He contributed significantly to the development of these fields in Hong Kong where his team pioneered prehospital stroke notification and the use of continuous quantitative electroencephalogram locally. Professor Teo's key research area includes stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, and post-stroke blood pressure management, and is currently the deputy director of the HKU Stroke Research and Prevention Group. He is focusing his research on novel acute therapies for stroke, artificial intelligence-driven prognostication in intracerebral hemorrhage, and strategies to optimize cardiac and cerebrovascular outcomes after stroke, especially in telemedicine.

Professor Woo joined the Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine in January 2024 as Clinical Assistant Professor of Practice. He completed his medical studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States and has worked 6 years in New York Presbyterian hospitals in Lower Manhattan and Queens, affiliated with Weill Cornell School of Medicine. In 2010, Professor Woo became the emergency department director at the renowned ‘United Family Hospital’ in Beijing. 

Professor Woo holds certifications from the American Board of Emergency Medicine, the American College of Legal Medicine and HKU postgraduate diploma in infectious disease. With his extensive experience in the field, Professor Woo has developed a deep understanding of emergency medicine and honed his skills by working in various emergency departments.

Professor Zhou joined the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, School of Clinical Medicine (host Department) and was jointly appointed by the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy; and School of Public Health in January 2024 as Assistant Professor. He received post-doctoral training as a Medical Statistician from the University of Oxford. He earned his Ph.D. in Data Science from School of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong. Before joining HKU, Professor Zhou worked as Assistant Professor at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick. His research interests include personalised artificial intelligence, big data analytics, primary care and preventive health, case-control and cohort studies, predictive decision analytics, and pharmacoepidemiology.