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
Qingling He
Postdoc fellow
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Stacey Zheng
PhD student
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Camille Shen
PhD student
Ryan Lau
Student helper
Xue Bai
PhD student
Evie Huang
PhD student
Ryan Chen
Undergraduate FYP student
Justin Yu
Undergraduate FYP student
Vivian Shen
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
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
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)