Stephanie Ma
Invited Speaker, The University of Hong Kong
Associate Vice-President (Research and Innovation)
Jimmy and Emily Tang Endowed Professor in Molecular Genetics
School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine
The University of Hong Kong
Professor Ma obtained her B.Sc. (Cell Biology and Genetics) and M.Sc. (Experimental Medicine) degrees from the University of British Columbia. She then graduated with a Ph.D. degree from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) with an outstanding ranking and was awarded the Li Ka Shing Prize for the Best Ph.D. Thesis of that year. Since then, she has been working at HKU where she is currently the Jimmy and Emily Tang Professor in Molecular Genetics at the School of Biomedical Sciences in Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU (HKUMed), and Associate Vice-President (Research and Innovation) at HKU. Professor Ma’s research interest is on exploiting stemness as a cancer cell vulnerability. Her team is dedicated to better understand how a more undifferentiated and stemness signature in cancer can contribute to therapy resistance and tumor recurrence. Professor Ma has been listed as a top 1% most-cited scholars by the ISI Essential Science Indicator and top 2% scientists worldwide by Stanford University. She is also the recipient of a number of awards including the more recent 2017 University of British Columbia Alumni Builder Award (Canada), the 2021 Research Grants Council (RGC) Research Fellow Scheme as well as the 2023 Croucher Senior Research Fellowship. Professor Ma is a Founding Member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences in which she currently serves as Vice-President. She is a member of the Board of Directors at Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, Senior Editor of Cancer Research and an Editorial Board Member of Hepatology.
