Dennis Lo Yuk-ming is a Hong Kong molecular biologist who has been serving as the vice-chancellor and president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 8 January 2025.
13 Facts About Dennis Lo
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Dennis Lo's research focuses on the detection of cell-free fetal DNA in blood plasma, and he is best known for his contributions to the development of non-invasive prenatal testing.
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Dennis Lo's mother taught music and his father, Lo Wai-hoi, who immigrated from Chaozhou to Hong Kong in 1946, was a psychiatrist and the former head of Castle Peak Hospital.
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Dennis Lo was a junior research fellow in natural sciences at Hertford College between 1990 and 1993, and the Wellcome Career Development Fellow in Clinical Medicine from 1993 to 1994.
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Dennis Lo first heard about the technique at a lecture by John Bell, now Regius Professor of Medicine, at Oxford, and asked to learn the technique from Bell.
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Dennis Lo was an honorary consultant chemical pathologist at John Radcliffe Hospital, the major teaching hospital for Oxford.
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Dennis Lo became a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemical Pathology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in January 1997.
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Dennis Lo then sought novel methods to isolate fetal DNA from mother's blood, which in 2002 came in the form of difference in DNA methylation between the mother and foetus.
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Dennis Lo's group was one of the first to sequence the SARS virus and to discover the existence of multiple viral strains.
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Dennis Lo focuses on cancer detection with circulating tumor DNA.
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Dennis Lo was acquired by GRAIL in 2017, which, in turn, was acquired by Illumina in 2021.
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Dennis Lo was the sole candidate, and his nomination was approved unanimously on 27 September 2024.
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Dennis Lo is no longer on the faculty list as of 2021.