Dr. Guo Yue obtained her Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Sciences from the School of Biomedical Sciences (SBS), CUHK in 2020. During her Ph.D. study under the supervision of Prof. Zhao Hui, she investigated the functional roles of the PI3K signaling pathway in neuroblastoma, and received comprehensive training at SBS, ranging from experimental techniques, scientific thinking, to the presentation of scientific data.

Upon graduation, Dr. Guo has been working as a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Nathalie Wong’s laboratory at the Department of Surgery, CUHK studying hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Using patient-derived organoids and gene editing tools, she is focusing on the mechanisms underneath tumor development and drug resistance in HCC patients.

The rich and systematic training received in SBS has enabled Dr. Guo to build up her research and scientific thinking skills — starting from a scientific question, followed by hypothesis needs to be carefully checked and examined with repeated experiments and adjustments. Apart from these very basics, she also considers it equally important to be connected with relevant people in academia, which is significant for her career development. In the future, Dr. Guo will keep focusing on the oncogenic study and learn more high-throughput methodologies, aiming to push forward the development of tumor treatment.

Dr. Guo Yue (4th from left, front row) and her labmates