Stephanie Ma, PhD

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Stem Cell Reports Author
Prof. Ma obtained her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of British Columbia (Canada), and graduated from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) with a Ph.D. of outstanding ranking that was awarded the Best PhD 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 the Faculty of Medicine, HKU (HKUMed), and Associate Vice-President (Research and Innovation) at HKU. Her team is dedicated to better understand how a more stemness and undifferentiated state in cancer can contribute to therapy resistance and tumor recurrence, using hepatocellular carcinoma and other gastrointestinal tract cancers as model systems.

Presentation(s):

• METABOLISM, STEM CELLS, AND CANCER

  Thursday, June 12, 2025
  2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time

• METABOLIC REPROGRAMMING IN HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA TO DRIVE CANCER STEMNESS

  Thursday, June 12, 2025
  2:05 PM – 2:25 PM HK Time