Seminars
Sep 30, 2026
Organoid Mini Symposium
School of Biomedical Sciences cordially invites you to join the Organoid Mini Symposium
The details are as follows.
Date: 30 September 2026 (Wed)
Time: 1:00 - 4:00 pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, 3 Sassoon Road (3SR-LT2), Po Fu Lam, Hong Kong
Description:
Modeling pathophysiology of various organs. 5 speakers around China and Singapore will share cutting-edge research on organoids. Keynote is given by Nicholas Barker, who discovered LGR5+ stem cells.
Speakers
- Nicholas Barker (A*STAR IMCB): Gut organoid
- Yangfei Xiang (ShanghaiTech University): Brain organoid
- Joe Zhang (Shenzhen Bay Laboratory): Heart organoid
- Gui-Wei He (Shenzhen Bay Laboratory): Cancer organoid
- Rio Sugimura (School of Biomedical Sciences, HKUMed): Human embryo model
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