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Prof. CHEUNG Hoi Hung Albert (張凱鴻) was graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He received his Ph.D. through the CUHK-NIH Graduate Partnership Program. After obtaining his doctoral degree, he continued his postdoctoral research at Dr. Owen Rennert’s laboratory, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.  During his postdoctoral training, he initiated two projects on modeling human diseases using induced pluripotent stem cells, and received the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Trainee Award and the NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE). In 2014, he joined the School of Biomedical Sciences, CUHK as a Research Assistant Professor.  He is interested in studying stem cell aging. He generated iPSC model of Werner syndrome (WS), a human genetic disorder displaying premature aging, for studying stem cell aging. WS patients experience a progressive decline in homeostatic and regenerative capacities, which is attributed to the accelerated degenerative changes in tissue-specific stem cells, stem cell niches and systemic cues that regulate stemness and self-renewal. Therefore, understanding the molecular pathways involved in stem cell aging is critical for developing new therapies for aging and age-related diseases. He is also interested in developing organoids for studying disease pathogenesis.