Professor Lap-Chee Tsui
Vice-Chancellor
Professor Tsui is an internationally acclaimed scientist who, in 1989, identified the defective gene that triggers cystic fibrosis. This represented a major breakthrough in human genetics and he has gone on to make indepth contributions to the human genome study, particularly in the characterization of chromosome 7, and the identification of additional disease genes.
An alumnus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Professor Tsui was geneticist-in-chief and head of the Genetics and Genomic Biology Programme of the Research Institute at the Hospital for Sick Children, and held the HE Sellers Chair in Cystic Fibrosis and was University Professor at the University of Toronto before returning to his home city as the University of Hong Kong's Vice-Chancellor, in 2002.
Professor Tsui has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in recognition of his scientific achievement and important contributions to promoting the development of science and technology in China.
During a long and illustrious career he has won numerous prestigious awards.