Research Projects
Liver transplant for acute-on-chronic liver failure

Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) patients have a high risk of early mortality without liver transplant. In this project, students will learn how to carry out a project to determine the baseline characteristics of ACLF patients, the evolution and assessment of organ failures, waitlist outcomes and predictors for futility after liver transplant.

Professor TCL Wong, Department of Surgery

Professor Tiffany Wong is a Clinical Associate Professor at Department of Surgery. Her research interests include expanding the pools of livers for successful transplantation with small-for-size livers, hepatitis B core antibody positive and severely steatotic grafts and on management of hepatocellular carcinoma. Her work was supported by numerous external grants, and she has been awarded with the Best Oral Awards at the Congress of International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHBPA), Asian-Pacific Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Association (A-PHBPA), the Liver Transplant and/or Hepatobiliary Surgery Fellow Award by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and most notably, the Rising Star Award of the International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS). As a result of the excellent research work, she has published in top-level journals including Journal of Hepatology, Hepatology, Annals of Surgery, Annals of Surgical Oncology and Liver Transplantation etc and she is the awardee for the Asia Pacific Digestive Week Federation (APDWF) Emerging Leader Lectureship in 2023. She serves as associate editor at American Journal of Transplantation.

wongtcl@hku.hk

For more information or to express interest for this project, please email the supervisor or the specified contact point in the project description.  Interested candidates are advised to enclose with your email:

1. your CV,
2. a brief description of your research interest and experience, and
3. two reference letters (not required for HKUMed UG students seeking MRes[Med]/URIS projects).

Information on the research programme, funding support and admission documentations could be referenced online at the Research Postgraduate Admissions website. General admission enquiries should be directed to rpgmed@hku.hk.

HKUMed MBBS students interested in the Master of Research in Medicine (MRes[Med]) programme may visit the programme website for more information.  

HKUMed UG students interested in the Undergraduate Research Internship Scheme (URIS) may visit the scheme’s website for more information.