The Wang Genomic Laboratory has uncovered the first comprehensive mutational landscape of secondary glioblastoma and identified an actionable mutation for precision cancer treatment

Quanhua Mu, Yiyun Chen, Biaobin Jiang, and Yoonhee Nam from Prof. Jiguang Wang’s lab have integrated sequencing data from not only the public literature but also a number of newly collected cases by Dr. Tao Jiang’s team from Beijing Neurosurgical Institute and Beijing Tiantan Hospital, and uncovered the mutational landscape of secondary glioblastoma (sGBM) in East Asian cohort....Read More

Prof. Zhang’s research team made a ground-breaking discovery on postsynaptic density formation.

Dr. Menglong Zeng and Mr. Xudong Chen, a postdoctoral fellow and a Ph.D. student, from Prof. Mingjie Zhang’s lab have made a ground-breaking discovery showing phase transition-mediated formation excitatory postsynaptic density condensates revealed by biochemical reconstitution approaches. The paper was published in the Aug. 23, 2018 issue of Cell. This is a continuation of their Read More

HKUST Receives HK$100 million Donation from Lo Kwee Seong Foundation to Advance Frontiers of Knowledge of Life Science

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) received a HK$100 million donation from Lo Kwee Seong Foundation in support of the University’s frontier research in life science.     Read More

International Alzheimer’s Disease Conference 2018

The International Alzheimer’s Disease Conference 2018 will be held on 07-08 Sept 2018 (Fri & Sat) in Grand Hall and Function Hall, 1/F, 12W, Science Park, Hong Kong. Register now and Call for abstract!   Read More

International Human Epigenome Consortium

26-28 Oct 2018 Annual Meeting : 26 Oct 2018 Science Days : 27-28 Oct 2018 Abstract Submission Deadline: 26 Aug 2018 Further information: http://ias.ust.hk/events/2018ihec/ Read More

IAS Junior Fellows Yuanliang ZHAI and Yongqian ZHAO published in Nature

Hi-res Image of Structure of the Origin Recognition Complex Bound to DNA Revealed Dr. Wai-Hei Lam and other group members in Bik Tye’s lab at HKUST in collaboration with Dr. Ning Li and others in Ning Gao’s lab at Peking University reported the atomic structure of the Origin Recognition Complex (ORC) bound to origin DNA Read More

2017/18 School of Science Postgraduate Research Excellence Award

The award recognizes and honors the outstanding achievement of SSCI students in their research. The School presented the Award to the awardees on 30 May, 2018. Awardees from the Division of Life Science: WANG Gang TIAN Ye WANG Jian CHENG Aifang SHEN Yuehong   Read More