Lap chee tsui biography of michael

Hong Kong academic

In this Chinese name, the family name is Tsui.

Lap-Chee TsuiGBMOCOOntJPFRSFRSC (Chinese: 徐立之; pinyin: Xú Lìzhī; Jyutping: ceoi⁴ laap⁶ zi¹; born 21 December 1950) is a Chinese-born Canadian geneticist and served as the 14th Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Hong Kong.

Personal life

He grew up in Kowloon, Hong Kong and attended Homantin Government Secondary School [zh; yue].

He studied Biology at the New Asia College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and was awarded a B.Sc.

Lap chee tsui biography of michael

and a M.Phil. in 1972 and 1974, respectively. Upon the recommendation of his mentor at the CUHK, he continued his graduate education in the United States and received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1979. He became Postdoctoral Investigator and Postdoctoral Fellow in 1979 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, then joined the Department of Genetics of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toron