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Professor, Division of Life Science, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Prof. King L. Chow earned his PhD in Cell Biology from the Baylor College of Medicine. After spending some years as a Belfer Center Fellow in the Molecular Genetics Department at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he returned to Hong Kong to assume an Assistant Professorship at HKUST. Prof. Chow now concurrently holds the positions of Professor of Life Science, Associate Director of the Bioengineering Program, Director of the Molecular Biomedical Sciences Program and Associate Dean of Students. Prof. Chow’s research work spans a broad spectrum of biological sciences including molecular genetics, genomics, neural developmental biology, the evolution of behavior and synthetic biology.

Division of Life Science, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

This is the fourth year that I have been an instructor for the HKUST iGEM team. It is great to see everyone working as a team! Although they are under pressure to get results, everyone can still remain calm and happy!