Lab member
Principle investigator:
Dr. Cheng-han Yu
Assistant Professor
School of Biomedical Sciences
Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
The University of Hong Kong
Email: chyu1@hku.hk
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8821-8877
Biography:
Cheng-han was born in Yilan, Taiwan. He graduated from National Taiwan University with Bachelor of Science in Physics (2000). He joined the research group of Jay T. Groves at University of California, Berkeley and completed his PhD in Applied Science and Technology (AS&T) with the focus on lipid membrane biophysics, T cell immunological synapse, and nanofabrication technology (2002-2007). Continuing the research interest in dynamical regulation of adhesion signalling, Dr. Yu started his postdoctoral training with Michael P. Sheetz at Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) in National University of Singapore. In August 2014, Cheng-han joined the School of Biomedical Sciences in the University of Hong Kong.
Lab members:
Connie WONG (Senior technician)
Wan Ning LEE (PhD student 2020-)
Yaoyue Qi (PhD student 2020-)
Vincent Tsun Chiu LEE (PhD student 2022-)
Hengshi Xu (PhD student 2023-)
Xingyu Liu (PhD student 2023-)
Wing Tung LAI (BBMS FYP student, 2023)
Alumni:
Xiaoting LIU (PhD student, 2017-2022)
Zhen FENG (PhD student, 2017-2021)
Brian Hon Man SIT (KCL-HKU joint PhD student, 2016-2021)
Salma Jalal (Postdoc, 2020-2021)
Xiaojie XIA (PhD student, 2019-2020)
Yuhuan ZHOU (PhD student, 2015-2019)
Fakun CAO (PhD student, 2015-2019)
Katherine Zhu (BBMS FYP student, 2021-2022 and summer intern, 2020)
Tsz Fung Jacky LUK (BBMS FYP student, 2020-2021)
Cheuk Ying TSE, BBMS summer intern (RIS), 2021
Wing Tung LAI, BBMS summer intern, 2021
Joan Marie Javillo BAGUIO, BBMS summer intern, 2019
Eunhye YANG, BBMS summer intern, 2019
Chun Him CHEUNG, BBMS summer intern, 2018
Sze Wang LI, BBMS summer intern, 2018
Tin Yan KOO, BBMS summer intern, 2018
Louise YUNG, BBMS summer intern, 2017
Long Sum Rachel TSE, BBMS summer intern, 2017
Sze Lai HO (Sheelah), HKU BSc summer intern, 2016
You-chuan JIN, HKUMJ summer intern, 2015
Yage ZHANG (Jacob), HKUMJ summer intern, 2015