Professor TSUI Lap-chee

Professor Lap-Chee Tsui is Chairman of the University of Hong Kong Foundation, Quishi Visiting Professor serving as Advisor of Residential College of Zhejiang University International Campus in Haining, and University of Toronto’s Emeritus University Professor. He was the 14th Vice Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong (2002-2014) and, prior to which, Geneticist-in-Chief at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and University Professor at University of Toronto, Canada. He was also the Founding President of Hong Kong Academy of Sciences (2015- 2022).

Professor Tsui received his Bachelor and Master degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his PhD from University of Pittsburgh in 1979. He is world renowned for his research work in human genetics and genomics, notably the identification of the gene for Cystic Fibrosis in 1989 and, later, other human genetic diseases while conducting a comprehensive characterization of human chromosome 7.

Prof. Tsui is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Royal Society of London and Academia Sinica. He is also an International Member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), a Foreign Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, a member of Hong Kong Academy of Sciences and a Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Laureate. He is the recipient of many national and international awards, including 16 honorary doctoral degrees from prestigious universities around the world, the Orders of Canada and Ontario and Knighthood of the Légion d'Honneur of France. Prof. Tsui was appointed Justice of the Peace in 2001 and awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star and the Grand Bauhinia Medal by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2011 and 2016, respectively.