Dr Gary Yam

Biography

Dr Gary Yam obtained his PhD degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and had his postdoctoral training in Department of Pathology, University of Zurich. His research interests include ocular cell biology and stem cell study, gene function, histopathology and experimental animal modeling of eye diseases. He has contributed more than 70 scientific articles in peer reviewed journals and has been a recipient of different awards including the Alfred Vogt Prize (2007) of the Swiss Ophthalmology Society, the most prestigious award in Switzerland for the scientific research in ophthalmology, and Young Scientist Awards by the Society for Histochemistry (2003 and 2005) and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2003). He serves as reviewers for more than 10 international journals and research grants. Currently, his research is focused on corneal tissue engineering and chaperone-assisted therapy of protein aggregation diseases.

Research Interest

Ocular surface cell biology Corneal tissue engineering Stem cell epigenetics, reprogramming and therapy Protein folding disease, protein quality control and chaperone-assisted protein correction