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MH Conversations and Connections Series – Lunchtime Seminar
Title: A Walkabout Career and Life
Date: 11 March 2025 (Tue)
Time: 12:30 – 1:45 pm HKT
Venue: Seminar Room 3, G/F, The Jockey Club Building For Interdisciplinary Research, 5 Sassoon Road
Registration Link: For HKU members / For non-HKU members
Abstract:
Walkabout is an Australian Aboriginal rite of passage that marks the transition from adolescence to adulthood. This “A Walkabout Career and Life” is a narrative about a Chinese migrant from XinHui district (新會區) in Jiangmen who’s family had everything and then nothing, a journey to Macao as a boy, growing up in Australia and educated in a discipline by chance and not by choice, balancing life as a young father, researcher and a restaurateur, and ended up again by chance with an unanticipated academic career in Hong Kong. This walkabout journey with many transitional passages embodies a career that had no planning what so ever, walking through doors of opportunities, not without its share of hurdles, but nevertheless, fun and rewarding.
Speaker:
Professor Danny Chan
S Y and H Y Cheng Professor in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Senior Advisor (Policy and Governance, Research), Faculty of Medicine
Director (Education and Development of Research Integrity), HKU
Biosketch:
Prof Danny Chan is a professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences, and Director of Education and Development of Research Integrity at the University of Hong Kong. He graduated from the University of Melbourne. His research interest is in skeletal biology, focusing on development, growth, and degenerative processes of the skeleton. He has a particular interest in rare diseases, and has contributed to key understandings in cartilage and bone development and growth, in health and diseases. He leverages on the scientific discoveries to formulate therapeutic strategies in stem cell and regenerative medicine. He is also passionate in community outreach, supporting patients with rare diseases. He helped to initiate “The Little People of Hong Kong” Foundation in Hong Kong, an NGO for the patient groups, and to increase the community’s awareness of their needs. He is also a council member of Rare Disease Hong Kong (RDHK), advocating for the needs of all rare disease patients in our society.
Welcome to join us!
Enquiry: Please contact Mr Edison Cheng (mehu@hku.hk).