Kathryn Cheah

Biography

Kathryn SE Cheah, PhD, has been Chair of Biochemistry since 1997 and Head of Department from 1997 to 2009. She was the Director for the LKS Faculty of Medicine Center for Reproduction, Development and Growth from 2004 to 2009. Her university education was obtained in the UK, at the University of London, and the University of Cambridge, where she was also a Brooks Scholar. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Manchester and a Research Fellow at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London before joining the University of Hong Kong in 1983. Kathy Cheah has been a Honorary Professor, Beijing Union Medical College, Beijing, China since 1997 In 2000, she was awarded the University of Hong Kong's Outstanding Researcher Award and the Croucher Foundation's Senior Fellowship. She is the founding President of the Hong Kong Society for Developmental Biology and the President of the International Society for Matrix Biology 2006-2008.

Research Interest

Her research focuses on understanding gene regulation and function and how mutations cause disease, with an emphasis on the skeletal system and the inner ear. It has been shown that the degenerative intervertebral disc disease is the most common cause of the disease. Sheaktiv promotes public understanding of science in the region