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Prof. Chan Wai-Yee, Director of our School and Prof. Woody W.Y. Chan, Associate Director (Graduate Education) were invited to serve as the Organizing Committee members and Session Chair for the Croucher Foundation Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on Stem Cells: Niches, Regeneration and Repair held at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong between 4 and 8 March 2013. In the first two days of the programme, Prof. Chan Wai-Yee and Prof. Woody Chan chaired, respectively, the sessions on "Pluripotency, early embryo stem cells" and on "Lineage and directed differentiation of stem cells to biologically/clinically relevant cell types". Along with other Guest Speakers from Australia, Europe, Japan and North America who shared at the series of open lectures and technical workshops their expertise on stem cell study, Prof. Pei Duanqing, our Adjunct Professor and Director, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences also served as one of the Guest Speakers and gave a talk on "Cellular reprogramming, development and cancer". For details, please visit http://www.biochem.hku.hk/asi2013/index.html.
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