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() 21 December 1950 (age 73) Shanghai, China: Citizenship: Hong Kong Canada: Residence: Hong Kong: Alma mater: Chinese University of Hong Kong (BS, MPhil) University of Pittsburgh
10 de nov. de 2011 · By: Kristina Winikates. Published: 2011-11-10. Lap-Chee Tsui is a geneticist who discovered the gene thought to be partly responsible for cystic fibrosis (CF), and his research team sequenced human chromosome 7.
Lap-Chee Tsui is an innovator, mentor and role model who stands as a true giant in the field of human genetics and whose work led to the discovery of the cystic fibrosis gene.
Professor Tsui was born in Shanghai, China, and holds a BSc and an MPhil from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. He joined the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto in 1981, where he would become Geneticist-in-Chief and also world-renowned for his identification of the gene for Cystic Fibrosis in 1989.
10 de ene. de 2008 · Lap-Chee Tsui, geneticist (b at Shanghai, China 21 Dec 1950). A graduate of the Chinese U of Hong Kong (Bsc 1972) and U of Pittsburgh (PhD 1979), Tsui joined the Research Institute at the Hospital for Sick Children at Toronto as a post-doctoral fellow in genetics during 1981-83.
Lap-Chee Tsui is a Hong Kong–Canadian geneticist who discovered the gene responsible for the heritable disorder, cystic fibrosis (CF). CF affects one in every 2,500 babies born in the United Kingdom.
Lap-Chee Tsui. Personal life. Tsui was born in Shanghai. He grew up in Tai Koon Yu, a little village on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong near Kai Tak Airport, where typical entertainment constituted exploring ponds and catching tadpoles and fish for simple experiments with other children. Due to this upbringing he speaks fluent Cantonese.
