Prof Cheung Man Yung, Bernard

Biography

Bernard Cheung was educated at Sevenoaks School and the University of Cambridge, England. He was a British Heart Foundation Junior Research Fellow at Cambridge before taking up lectureships at the University of Sheffield and the University of Hong Kong. In 2007-2009, he held the chair in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Birmingham, England. Bernard Cheung is the Sun Chieh Yeh Heart Foundation Professor in Cardiovascular Therapeutics and heads the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics in the Department of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong. He is also the Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, as well as the Medical Director of the Phase 1 Clinical Trials Centre.

Research Interest

Prof Cheung's main research interest is in cardiovascular diseases and risk factors, such as hypertension and the metabolic syndrome.