Grants, Awards & Other Outputs
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Grants
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Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF)
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General Research Fund (GRF)
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Others
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Awards
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Second Class Award of the 2020 China Medical Science & Technology Awards, which entitled "Disease mechanisms and minimal invasive surgery applications for Hirschsprung’s disease" (Awardee: Professor Paul TAM and Dr. Clara TANG)
Best Research Output Award 2019 (Basic Research), Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, "Identification of genes associated with Hirschsprung disease, based on whole genome sequence analysis, and potential effects on enteric nervous system” in Gastroenterology, 155(6):1908-1922. (Awardee: Dr. Clara TANG)
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Faculty of Medicine research output prize (2018-2019), "Exome chip meta-analysis identifies novel loci and East Asian-specific coding variants contributing to lipid levels and coronary artery disease” in Nature Genetics, 49(12):1722 by TANG CS, CHEUNG CYY, CHERNY SS, LAM KSL, TSE HF and SHAM PC
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Travel award for the 5th symposium of the Enteric Nervous System (Boston, USA) 2018 (Awardee: Dr. Clara TANG)
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Reviewers’ Choice Abstract for the 66 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (Vancouver, Canada) 2016 (Awardee: Dr. Clara TANG)
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Oral Presentations in Conference
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LAM WY, TANG CS, SO MT, HSU JS, CHUNG PHY, NGO DN, NGUYEN PAH, MITCHISON HM, JENKINS D, O’CALLAGHAN C, SHAM PC, GARCIA-BARCELO MM, LUI VCH, TAM PKH, Whole Exome Sequencing Reveals a Wide Spectrum of Ciliary Gene Mutations in Nonsyndromic Biliary Atresia, 67th British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS) Annual Congress, Virtual Congress, 7-9 Jul 2021, UK (Finalist for Peter Paul Rickham Prize for the best basic science paper)
TANG CS, Return of secondary findings in next generation sequencing: what are the concerns?, Dec 2019, National Taiwan University Graduate Institute of Medical Genomics and Proteomics, Taipei, Taiwan (Invited seminar)
TANG CS, Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing co-organised by the Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong, The Royal Society, U.S. National Academy of Sciences and U.S. National Academy of Medicine, Nov 2018 (Invited lecture)
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TANG CS, ZHUANG X, SO MT, SHAM PC, TAM PKH, GARCIA-BARCELO MM, Deciphering the genetic basis of Hirschsprung disease by whole genome sequencing, The 5th symposium of the Enteric Nervous System: cells, signals, gene and therapy, Apr 2018, Boston, USA
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