Stephen Kwok-Wing Tsui
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Orcid: 0000-0003-0686-4259
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- Keywords: Cancer genetics, genomics and bioinformatics
Short Bio
- TSUI Kwok-Wing Stephen received the PhD degree in Biochemistry from the Chinese University in Hong Kong (CUHK) in 1995. He is currently a professor and the Associate Director (Research) in the School of Biomedical Sciences, as well as Director of the Hong Kong Bioinformatics Centre in CUHK. He was also a former member of the International HapMap Consortium and worked on the single nucleotide polymorphisms of human chromosome 3p. During the SARS outbreak in 2003, his team was one of the earliest teams that cracked the complete genome of the SARS-coronavirus. He has published more than 240 scientific papers in referred journals, including Nature, Nature Machine Intelligence, New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, PNAS, Genome Biology, Nucleic Acids Research and Bioinformatics. He has more than 15,000 paper citations and his H-index is 43. He is also an editor of several international journals including Frontiers in Genetics, Gene and International Journal of Oncology. He was the recipient of an Excellent Research Award, Food and Health Bureau, Hong Kong in 2019. His research interests include bioinformatics, comparative genomics and multi-omics of human diseases.
