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Professor Lap-Chee Tsui is Emeritus University Professor of University of Toronto and Visiting Professor of Zhejiang University, China (serving as Advisor of Residential College of its International Campus in Haining). He was the 14th Vice Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong (2002-2014) and, prior to which, the Geneticist-in-Chief at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and University Professor at University of Toronto, Canada. He was also the Founding President of Hong Kong Academy of Sciences (2015-2022)

Prof Tsui was born in Shanghai, China. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his PhD from University of Pittsburgh in 1979. He is world renowned for his research work in human genetics and genomics, most notably the identification of the gene for Cystic Fibrosis in 1989 and, later, other human genetic disorders while conducting a comprehensive characterisation of human chromosome 7.

Prof Tsui is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Royal Society of London (FRS), and Academia Sinica. He is also an International Member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), a Foreign Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, a member of Hong Kong Academy of Sciences and a Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Laureate. He is the recipient of many national and international awards, including 16 honorary doctoral degrees from prestigious universities around the world, the Orders of Canada (OC) and Ontario (OOnt) and Knighthood of the Légion d’Honneur of France. Prof. Tsui was appointed Justice of the Peace (JP) in 2001 and awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star (GBS) and the Grand Bauhinia Medal (GBM) by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2011 and 2016, respectively.

April 2024