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47 Medical Faculty News Dr Julie Lok Ying-ching （駱映晴） joined the Department of Ophthalmology as Clinical Assistant Professor in May 2018. Dr Lok was an MBBS graduate from the Faculty in 2010. She went on to complete her residency training in ophthalmology and subspecialty fellowship training in paediatric ophthalmology at the Prince of Wales Hospital and Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital and acted as an honorary clinical tutor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong before she returned to HKU. She is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and a fellow of the College of Ophthalmologists of Hong Kong. Her areas of interest are paediatric ophthalmology, strabismus, myopic control and ophthalmic epidemiology. Dr Mandy Chan Wai-man （陳慧 敏） joined the Department of Medicine as Clinical Assistant Professor of Practice in June 2018. Dr Peng Cao （曹鵬） joined the Department of Diagnostic Radiology as Non-Clinical Assistant Professor in October 2018. People Dr Ralf Jauch joined the School of Biomedical Sciences as Associate Professor in April 2018. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, Germany, and The University of Manchester before obtaining his PhD in 2005 at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. In 2006 he joined the Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, and stayed for seven years as a Postdoctoral and Research Scientist. From 2013 to 2018 he was a Principal Investigator at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health. He uses a combination of biochemistry, genomics and stem cell biology to uncover how proteins ‘read’ gene regulatory information to give cells their identities. Dr Asif Javed joined the School of Biomedical Sciences as Assistant Professor (Research) in May 2018. Dr Javed obtained his PhD in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He completed further postdoctoral training in computational biology from IBM TJ Watson Research Center; and in genomics from the Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR. His group focuses on developing and applying integrative methods to interpret high throughput omics assays in light of prior domain knowledge. At HKU, the group will focus on rare congenital diseases and cancers, collaborating with clinical scientists. Dr Tse Ka Yu （謝嘉瑜） joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology as Clinical Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Practice in May 2018. She completed her general obstetrics and gynaecology training, then pursued her gynaecological oncology training and held a one-year fellowship at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK. She completed attachments at Memorial Sloane Kettering Hospital, New York, and Centre Oscar Lambret, Lille, to further her specialist knowledge and skills in ovarian cytoreduction and minimally invasive surgery in gynaecological cancer. Dr Tse is currently studying cell cycle inhibition in ovarian cancer and DNA damage in cervical cancer, and is conducting a phase II trial on immunotherapy in cervical cancer. GOODBYE We would like to express our gratitude and best wishes to the following staff member who has left the Faculty: Dr Joseph Kwan Shiu-kwong （關兆洸） , Department of Medicine RETIREMENT The Faculty would like to thank Professor Keith Luk Dip-kei （陸瓞驥） of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology and Professor Law Wai-lun （羅偉倫） of the Department of Surgery for their dedication, service and contributions to the Faculty. We wish them all the best for their future endeavours. IN REMEMBRANCE With deep sorrow, we mourn the passing of the following Faculty alumni: Dr William Tong Cheuk-yan （唐卓恩） (MBBS 1983) passed away on May 2, 2018 Dr Cheung King-wai （張經緯） (MBBS 1965) passed away on July 27, 2018 Hello!