Chairman

Luo Jun, male, born in November 1956, Hubei Xiantao, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Changjiang Scholar. In 2009, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He graduated from the Physics and Chemistry Department of Huazhong Institute of Technology in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science degree. In 1985, he graduated from Huazhong Institute of Technology and obtained a master's degree in science from Sun Yat-Sen University. In 1994, he was a professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. In 1999, he received his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Professor Dennis Lo is the ninth Vice-Chancellor and President and the Li Ka Shing Professor of Medicine of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is also the President of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences. His research interests focus on the biology and diagnostic applications of cell-free nucleic acids in plasma. In particular, he discovered the presence of cell-free fetal DNA in maternal plasma in 1997 and has since then been pioneering non-invasive prenatal diagnosis using this technology. This technology has been adopted globally and has created a paradigm shift in prenatal medicine. He has also made many innovations using circulating nucleic acids for cancer detection, including the screening of early stage nasopharyngeal cancer.

In recognition of his research, Professor Lo has been elected as Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Founding Member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society and Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. Professor Lo has won numerous awards, including the 2014 King Faisal International Prize in Medicine, the 2016 Future Science Prize in Life Science, the 2019 Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award, the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the 2021 Royal Medal, the 2021 ESHG Mendel Award, the 2022 ISPD Pioneer Award, the 2022 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, the 2023 inaugural Tengchong Science Prize, the 2024 Jiménez Díaz Lecture Award and the 2025 Richard B. Johnston, Jr., MD Prize in Developmental Biology by March of Dimes.