Dr Parco Siu Ming-fai, Associate Professor at the Department of Health Technology and Informatics, has recently won two awards – the Research Career Enhancement Award and the International Union of Physiological Sciences Travel Award presented by the American Physiological Society (APS).

Being the first in Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland to receive the APS Research Career Enhancement Award, Dr Siu will be sponsored to visit the Transgenic Mouse Core Laboratory at the Chang Gung University in Taiwan to further enhance his research skills. In addition, by winning the International Union of Physiological Sciences Travel Award, Dr Siu will be supported by APS to present his research findings at the International Union of Physiological Sciences Congress to be held in July this year in Birmingham, U.K.

Dr Siu has been studying the cellular and molecular mechanisms of skeletal muscle atrophy and cardiac muscle cell death. His research findings have contributed to identifying the molecular therapeutic targets for muscle ageing, muscular dystrophy, heart disease and heart failure. Details>>