Editorial Board Member - JCEG
Alfred Sze-Lok Cheng
Associate ProfessorSchool of Biomedical Sciences
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Alfred Cheng is an Associate Professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He completed his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Joseph Sung in the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics at CUHK in 2002 and completed post-doctoral training characterizing the roles of cyclooxygenase-2 in hepatitis B-induced hepatocarcinogenesis. From 2004 to 2007, he was trained as a post-doctoral researcher in Prof. Tim Huang’s lab at Ohio State University where he developed an integrated genome-wide and bioinformatics approach to interrogate gene regulatory network in cancer.
He has received several scientific awards including the American Association of Cancer Research Scholar-in-Training Awards for 3 consecutive years from 2004 to 2006 and Travel Grants/Oral Free Paper Prize from the United European Gastroenterology from 2011 to 2013. Prof. Cheng has published in international journals including Molecular Cell, Nature Genetics, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Cancer Cell, Cancer Research, Gastroenterology and Gut. He has served as Principal Investigator capacity in 10 competitive local and national research projects.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr. Alfred Cheng’s research interests are transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms of carcinogenesis.
Other Editorial Board Members - JCEG
Guey-Jen Lee-Chen
Department of Life Science
National Taiwan Normal University
Taiwan
Chiang-Ting Chien
Department of Biology
National Taiwan Normal University
Taiwan
Zubair M Ahmed
Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery
School of Medicine University of Maryland
United States
Hung-Jen Liu
Institute of Molecular Biology
National Chung Hsing University
Taiwan
Masayoshi Yamaguchi
Department of Hematology and Biomedical Oncology
Emory University School of Medicine
United States
Juro Gregan
Department of Genetics
Comenius University in Bratislava
Slovakia
Nicholas Tsinoremas
Department of Medicine
University of Miami
United States
Saber Mohamed Abd-Allah
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Beni-Suef University
Egypt
Hsien-Yuan Lane
Director and Professor
Department of Psychiatry
China Medical University Hospital.
Charles Wang
Director Center for Genomics
School of Medicine
Loma Linda University
United States