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Sep 7, 2024, 07:54

Meet the speakers of CityU – AFCR Symposium – Jiguang Wang

CityU-AFCR Symposium on Precision Medicine and Digital Medicine will go on from 12-13 September as part of BIOHK2024.

The symposium will showcase presentations by BRACE award winners and experts in precision medicine, providing a dynamic platform for the exchange of innovative ideas and fostering a collaborative environment for advancements in the biotechnology field.

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One of the Speakers is Jiguang Wang

Prof. Jiguang Wang is the Padma Harilela Associate Professor of Life Science, Associate Professor in the Division of Life Science and Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He focuses on the application of data science in biology and medicine. His research interests include computational genomics, medical image analytics, machine learning, and precision medicine.

At Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (HKCeND), Prof. Wang has been using his data science expertise to computational study the clinical images and high-throughput genomic sequencing data, for the elucidation of disease mechanism and the exploration of potential drug targets in treating patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

Prof. Wang won the Excellent Young Scientist Award of National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2019 and the Zhong Nanshan Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award in 2021. Moreover, he has published over 30 papers in journals, including Cell, Nature, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

During CityU – AFCR Symposium Jiguang Wang will speak about a topic named ‘Study of Cancer Evolution for Precision Medicine in Glioma ‘ on September 12.

For more information about CityU-AFCR Symposium visit oncodaily.com