CUHK Research: Changing the world

CUHK’s Faculty of Medicine is home to a team of leading researchers who contribute extraordinary expertise to Hong Kong’s public healthcare system. Among them is Chemical Pathology Professor Dennis Lo Yuk-ming, often referred to as the “father” of Non-invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT). Last year, he was awarded America’s top biomedical research prize for his discovery, which has revolutionised prenatal testing for Down syndrome. That clinical breakthrough has also laid foundations for the early detection of multiple types of cancer, creating life-changing impacts on patients around the world. Molecular diagnostics From safer prenatal tests to early cancer detection Dennis Lo Yuk-ming Professor of Chemical Pathology 27