ABCT postgraduate awarded Best Presentation Award in The Liver Week 2020 (Virtual conference), Annual Meeting of Korean Association for the study of liver.
Mr. Ho Kit Mok, PhD student of Dr. Terence Lee, received prestigious Best Presentation Award in The Liver Week 2020, Annual meeting of Korean Association for the study of liver held in Incheon, Korea, from 13 to 14 August. 2020.
The Liver Week 2020 was held by Korean Association for the study of the Liver (KASL), jointly with the Korean Association of HBP Surgery (KAHBPS), the Korean Liver Cancer Association (KLCA), and the Korean Liver Transplantation Society (KLTS). This conference aims to bring all participants from the fields of clinical medicine and basic science to associates from pharmacy and medical equipment, with hope to eradicate liver diseases.
As a delegate of Hong Kong, Mr. Mok has gained recognitions from the judges with his oral presentation in free paper presentation session on the research topic " SREBP2 Activation Drives Drug Resistance through Promotion of Cholesterol Biosynthesis-driven Sonic Hedgehog Signaling (SHH) Pathway in Hepatocellular Carcinoma". In this project, he has identified a novel mechanism of drug resistance via promotion of cholesterol biosynthesis, which potentially opens a novel therapeutic avenue for treatment of liver cancer.
Mr. Ho Kit Mok, PhD student of Dr. Terence Lee, received prestigious Best Presentation Award in The Liver Week 2020, Annual meeting of Korean Association for the study of liver held in Incheon, Korea, from 13 to 14 August. 2020.
The Liver Week 2020 was held by Korean Association for the study of the Liver (KASL), jointly with the Korean Association of HBP Surgery (KAHBPS), the Korean Liver Cancer Association (KLCA), and the Korean Liver Transplantation Society (KLTS). This conference aims to bring all participants from the fields of clinical medicine and basic science to associates from pharmacy and medical equipment, with hope to eradicate liver diseases.
As a delegate of Hong Kong, Mr. Mok has gained recognitions from the judges with his oral presentation in free paper presentation session on the research topic " SREBP2 Activation Drives Drug Resistance through Promotion of Cholesterol Biosynthesis-driven Sonic Hedgehog Signaling (SHH) Pathway in Hepatocellular Carcinoma". In this project, he has identified a novel mechanism of drug resistance via promotion of cholesterol biosynthesis, which potentially opens a novel therapeutic avenue for treatment of liver cancer.
