Dr. Evandro Fang was the first batch of graduate students admitted to the Ph.D. programme offered by the newly established School of Biomedical Sciences back in 2009. During his study in the School under the supervision of Prof. Ng Tzi-bun, Dr. Fang published over 10 research articles and was selected as a finalist of the Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2011 by the Hong Kong Institution of Science.

After obtaining the Ph.D. degree in 2012, Dr. Fang started a 5-year postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute on Aging, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S.A. and received several awards including the NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence 2014 and 2015, and the Butler-Williams Scholars Program on Aging 2016.

In September 2017, Dr. Fang established his independent laboratory at The University of Oslo (UiO), Norway, focusing on mitophagy, a molecular mechanism of how cells clear their damaged and aged mitochondria, and the roles of mitophagy in Alzheimer’s disease. He was an awardee of the FRIMED BIO Young Research Talent 2017, The Research Council of Norway, and a finalist of the 2017 European Research Council Starting Grant. Dr. Fang is also a founding member of the Norwegian Centre on Healthy Ageing, UiO. He and his team are actively engaged in moving his laboratory findings to translational applications, with an overarching goal to establish novel and safe biological approaches to promote longer and healthier human lives.

Dr. Evandro Fang (1st from right, back row) with his labmates in National Institute on Aging, NIH, U.S.A.

Dr. Evandro Fang (1st from left) revisited the School of Biomedical Sciences to have a reunion with Prof. Ng Tzi-bun (2nd from right) and other colleagues in 2014

Dr. Evandro Fang (1st from left) revisited the School of Biomedical Sciences to have a reunion with Prof. Ng Tzi-bun (2nd from right) and other colleagues in 2014