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Lap-Chee Tsui GBM OC OOnt JP FRS FRSC (Chinese: 徐立之; pinyin: Xú Lìzhī; Jyutping: ceoi 4 laap 6 zi 1; born 21 December 1950) is a Chinese-born Canadian geneticist and served as the 14th Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Hong Kong.
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 nov. de 2011 · Lap-Chee Tsui is a geneticist who discovered the cystic fibrosis (CF) gene, and his research team sequenced human chromosome 7. As the location of the cystic fibrosis gene is now known, it is possible for doctors and specialists to identify in human fetuses the mutation that causes the fatal disease.
He is an insightful, creative and scientific visionary. 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.
Dr the Honourable Tsui Lap-Chee, world-renowned molecular biologist, President of the Victor and William Fung Foundation and Master of the Residential College of International Campus of Zhejiang University. He is also the Emeritus University Professor of University of Toronto.
About. Our people. Senior Members, Tutors and Directors of Studies. Lap-Chee Tsui. Honorary Fellow. Born in Shanghai, Professor Lap-Chee Tsui studied for his doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh before joining the Department of Genetics at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto in 1981.
Tsui directs the Genome Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong, and his current research continues to focus on cystic fibrosis and other genetic and disease gene analysis. Prior to his current appointment at the University of Hong Kong, Dr. Tsui was Geneticist-in-Chief and Head of the Genetics and Genomic Biology Program of the Research ...
