Dr. Hei-Man Chow is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Life Science at the University of Science and Technology. Dr. Chow earned her B.Sc. in Animal and Plant Biotechnology and Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and obtained her postdoctoral training in the School of Biomedical Engineering/ Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.

Honors and awards:

  1. 2017 年度中国未来女科学家—L’Oreal-UNESCO-China Association for Science and Technology
  2. Alzheimer’s Association Research Fellowship—Alzheimer’s Association, USA (Oct/Nov 2017-Sept 2021)
  3. Junior Fellowship—Institute of Advance Study, HKUST (Sep 2015- Sep 2018)
  4. Global Research Council Fellowship—World Economic Forum, Switzerland (Sep 2016-Sep 2018)
  5. Committee member—Trainee Advisory Committee, Society for Neuroscience, USA (Oct 2015- Sept 2018)
  6. Committee member—Trainee Professional Development Awards Selection Committee, Society for Neuroscience, USA (Jan 2017-Dec 2019)

Peer-reviewed publications:

  1. Aifang Cheng, Teng Zhao, Kai-Hei Tse, Hei-Man Chow et al., ATM and ATR play complementary roles in the behavior of excitatory and inhibitory vesicle populations. PNAS. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1716892115 (IF=9.661)
  2. Karl Herrup*, Kai-Hei Tse* & Hei-Man Chow*. Loopholes in the DNA contract kill neurons. Nature Neuroscience 20, 1192–1194 (2017) doi:10.1038/nn.4626. Published online 29 August 2017 (*Co-corresponding author) (IF = 17.839)
  3. Jianmin Chen, Ph.D; Yanping Chen; Graham Vail; Heiman Chow; Yang Zhang; Lauren Louie; Jiali Li; Ronald Hart; Mark Plummer; Karl Herrup. The impact of glutamine supplementation on the symptoms of ataxia-telangiectasia: a preclinical assessment. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 2016 (Accepted, in press) (IF= 6.510)
  4. Hei-Man Chow and Karl Herrup. Genomic integrity and the ageing brain. Nature Review Neuroscience. 2015 Nov; 16 (11):672-84. doi: 10.1038/nrn4020. Epub 2015 Oct 14. (IF= 29.298)
  5. Hei-Man Chow, Dong Guob, Jie-Chao Zhou, Guan-Yun Zhang, Hui-Fang Li, Karl Herrup, and Jie Zhang. CDK5 activator protein p25 preferentially binds and activates GSK3β. PNAS. 2014 Nov 11; 111(45):E4887-95. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1402627111 (IF: 9.423)
  6. Kim HM Chow, Jing Liu, Raymond WY Sun, Paul M Vanhoutte, Aimin Xu, Jie Chen, CM Che, and Yu Wang. The gold (III) porphyrin complex, gold-2a, suppresses WNT1 expression in breast cancer cells by enhancing the promoter association of YY1. Amrican Journal of Translation Research. 2011; 3(5): 479–491. (IF: 3.402)
  7. Kim HM Chow, Raymond WY Sun, Janice BB Lam, Carrie KL Li, Aimin Xu, DL Ma, Ruben Abagyan, Yu Wang and CM Che. A Gold (III) Porphyrin complex with antitumor properties targets the Wnt/β-catenin pathway. Cancer Research. 2010; 70:329-337. (This article is being featured on MDLinx.com: (IF: 9.329)
  8. Janice BB Lam,*Kim HM Chow, Aimin Xu, Karen SL Lam, Jing Liu, NS Wong, Randall T Moon, Peter R Shepherd, Garth JS Cooper, Yu Wang. Adiponectin haploinsufficiency promotes mammary tumor development in MMTV-PyVT mice by modulation of phosphatase and tensin homolog activities. PloS One. 2009; 4(3):e4968. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004968 (*Co-first author). (IF: 3.057)
  9. Jing Liu, Janice BB Lam, Kim HM Chow, Aimin Xu, Karen SL Lam, Randall T Moon and Yu Wang. Adiponectin stimulates Wnt inhibitory factor-1 expression through epigenetic regulations involving the transcription factor specificity protein 1. Carcinogenesis. 2008; 29(11):2195-2202. (IF: 5.334)
  10. Mingyan Zhou, Aimin Xu, Paul KH Tam, Karen SL Lam, Lawrence Chan, Ruby LC Hoo, Jing Liu, Kim HM Chow and Yu Wang. Mitochondria dysfunction contributes to the increased vulnerabilities of adiponectin knockout mice to liver injury. Hepatology. 2008; 48(4): 1087-1096. (IF: 11.055)
  11. Adi GG Go, Kim HM Chow, Isabel SS Hwang, and Fai Tang. Adrenomedullin and its receptor components in adipose tissues: differences between white and brown fats and the effects of adrenergic stimulation. Peptides. 2007; 28: 920-7. (IF: 2.618)