Team:HKUST-Hong Kong/Supervisor

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Supervisor

Dr. King L. CHOW
Division of Life Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

King L. Chow, Professor of Life Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, earned his PhD in Cell Biology from Baylor College of Medicine. After spending some years as a Belfer Fellow in the Molecular Genetics Department at Albert Einstein College of Medicine under the sponsorship of Martin Foundation, he returned to Hong Kong to assume an Assistant Professorship at HKUST. He rose to the current rank in the Division of Life Science in the following decade and concurrently holds the positions of the Associate Director of the Bioengineering Program, the Director of the Molecular Biomedical Sciences Program and the Associate Dean of Students at HKUST. Prof. Chow’s research work spans across a broad spectrum of biological sciences from basic molecular genetics, genomics, neural developmental biology, evolutionary of behavior and synthetic biology.