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Yuet Ming Rebecca Chin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong

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Ph.D., Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
B.Tech. (First Class Honors), Biomedical Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Born in Hong Kong, Rebecca received her Bachelor of Technology's degree from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. She completed her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology with Marshall Horwitz at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2006. With a postdoctoral fellowship from Susan G. Komen for the Cure Breast Cancer Foundation, Rebecca studied the signal transduction events that drive breast cancer metastasis with Alex Toker at Harvard Medical School (HMS). In 2013, she began her career as an Assistant Professor at HMS. Rebecca joined the City University of Hong Kong in September 2016.

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Rebecca is a recipient of a 2015 V Scholar Award. She was named an Albert Wyrick Scholar, which recognizes young scientists who pioneer techniques to make breakthroughs in cancer research. Rebecca also received the Howard Temin Pathway to Independence Award (NIH K99) and the National Science Fund for Young Scholar (NSFC).

Current Lab Members

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Qingling He

Postdoc fellow

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Evie Huang

PhD student

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Camille Shen

PhD student

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Stacey Zheng

PhD student

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Xue Bai

PhD student

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Zexian Ou

PhD student

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Ryan Lau

Student helper

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Kenton Law

Undergraduate FYP student

Former Lab Members

Jianyang Hu

PhD student, Postdoctoral fellow

Current position - Research assistant professor, Southern University of Science and Technology

Alishba Maryam

PhD student

Current position - Postdoctoral fellow, Northwestern University, Chicago

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Ye Tian

PhD student, Postdoctoral fellow

Current position - Postdoctoral fellow, Hong Kong University

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Taron Ng, Amble Zhang, Vivian Shen

Undergraduate student helper, Final Year Project

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Iulia Grigore

Summer student, University College of London, 2019

Current position - PhD student, University of Toronto

Derek Cheung, Alley Yum, Chloe Chan, Katie Lam, Justin Yu 

Undergraduate Student, Final Year Project

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Katy Wong

Undergraduate Student, Final Year Project

Current position - Master student, PolyU

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Vincent Tam, Kevin Cheng

Summer Student, University of Toronto, 2017-2018

Emily Cohen

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015 - 2016 (HMS)

Current position - Senior Scientist, Kronos Bio Inc.

Tiffany Tsang

Research Assistant, 2014 - 2016 (HMS)

Current position - Research Scientist, Broad MIT and Harvard

Kelsey Gallant

Summer Student, 2015 (HMS)

Casey Stottrup

Research Assistant, 2013 - 2014 (HMS)

City University of Hong Kong

© 2020 by Rebecca Chin

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