CityU’s 6th HK Tech Forum focuses on metabolism in health and disease

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Eminent scholars from academia worldwide shared their insights into complex signaling networks in various metabolic pathways at the HK Tech Forum on Metabolism in Health and Disease hosted by the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS) and the Department of Biomedical Sciences (BMS) at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) from 15 to 16 December.

This was the sixth in the HK Tech Forum series, which was initiated by President Way Kuo of CityU. It focused on revealing how various signaling pathways in the metabolism of oxygen, glucose, lipids, proteins and other nutrients offered a better understanding of human physiology and diseases.

At the opening ceremony on 15 December, President Kuo extended a warm welcome to participants, saying deeper mechanistic insights into complex signaling networks in metabolic pathways would advance our knowledge of human metabolism and its role in homeostasis and disease pathogenesis.

Prfessor Michael Yang Mengsu, Vice-President (Research & Technology) and the Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor of Biomedical Sciences, and Professor Huang Yu, Head of BMS and the Jeanie Hu Professor of Biomedical Sciences were the Co-Chairs.