Prof Chim Chor Sang, James

Biography

Prof Chim is the SH Ho Professor in Haematology & Oncology at the University of Hong Kong, and also an Honorary Consultant to the Department of Medicine at Queen Mary Hospital and an Honorary Oncology Specialist at the Department of Medicine and Geriatrics at Kwong Wah Hospital.  Professor Chim has been awarded Fellowships of both the Royal Colleges of Physicians and also Pathologists in the United Kingdom. He has also been awarded Founding Fellowship at the Faculty of Science of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australia & the Academy of Translational Medicine of the European Society for Translational Medicine (EUSTM).    Prof Chim is a clinician-scientist interested in the study of DNA methylation of tumor suppressor genes and non-coding RNAs (micro-RNAs & long noncoding RNAs) in blood cancers including multiple myeloma, lymphoma, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. So far, he has published >60 articles in the field of DNA methylation in blood cancers. Indeed, his research on “Epigenetic alterations in acute leukemia” was awarded the prestigious State Scientific and Technological Advancement Award in China in 2009. Moreover, based on his original work in DNA methylation in blood cancer, he was awarded honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologist of UK. He is also an invited member of Clinical Epigenetics Society (CLEPSO) and Cancer Epigenetics Society (CES). In this connection, he is also the associate editor of Epigenomics & Clinical Epigenetics. 

Research Interest

study of DNA methylation of tumour suppressor genes and non-coding RNAs (micro-RNAs & long noncoding RNAs) in blood cancers including multiple myeloma, lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.