School of Biomedical Sciences cordially invites you to join the RGC GRF/ECS 2025-26 Brainstorming Workshop – Seminar on Grantsmanship by Professor Lukas Sommer:

Speaker: Professor Lukas Sommer, Director of Institute of Anatomy, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Co-Director of SKINTEGRITY.CH
Talk Title: Strategies for Successful Research Grants: Tips and Tactics

Date: 27 August 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, G/F, William M.W. Mong Block, 21 Sassoon Road

Biography

Lukas Sommer is a full professor at the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and the current Director of the Institute. Lukas Sommer is also Co-Director of SKINTEGRITY.CH, a Swiss research consortium investigating chronic skin defects and malignant skin diseases.

Lukas Sommer studied biology at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and obtained his PhD in 1992 in Lausanne, Switzerland. After a postdoctoral fellowship at CALTECH in Pasadena, USA, he returned to Switzerland as a research group leader at the ETH Zurich in 1997, where he became Assistant Professor in 2001. In 2007, he was appointed full professor at the University of Zurich, where he has a dual affiliation with the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Science.

His research is focused on the question of how embryonic programs related to neural crest development are hijacked and used in the adult organism during tumorigenesis and tissue regeneration.

ALL ARE WELCOME

*One-to-one consultation meetings will be held in the morning of 28-30 August 2024. Group proposal reviews and discussions will be held in the afternoon of 28-30 August 2024. If you wish to seek advice from Professor Sommer, please contact Crystal (cytc@hku.hk) or Veronica (veronkpy@hku.hk) to schedule a slot. Thank you.