Becky Mingyao Ma
Hong Kong
Mentorship Abstract Award: 2nd Prize
ISN Mentorship Abstract Awards recognize the three top-scored WCN’26 abstracts submitted by recent ISN mentees after collaboration with their mentors in the ISN Mentorship Program.
Dr. Becky Ma is a clinical assistant professor working at the University of Hong Kong, in Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong. She graduated from the University of Hong Kong with distinctions. She underwent her training in nephrology and advanced internal medicine at Queen Mary Hospital and Tung Wah Hospital, both in Hong Kong. She was awarded the Best Thesis Gold award by the Hong Kong College of Physicians and Distinguished Young Fellow by the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine.
Dr. Ma has great interest in monogenetic kidney diseases and undertook a postdoctoral research fellowship in precision medicine at Columbia University Center for Precision Medicine and Genomics in New York, USA. She was awarded the Hong Kong Health and Medical Research Fund Research Fellowship Grant, Hong Kong College of Physicians-Hong Kong Genome Institute Training Grant for excellence in genomic medicine, and Hong Kong Academy of Medicine-Hong Kong Genome Institute Research Excellence Grant. She has been accredited as the First Genetics and Genomics Fellow in Hong Kong by the College of Physicians.
Dr. Ma has established a local cohort of genetic kidney disease and helped set up the Genetic Kidney Disease Clinics at Queen Mary Hospital, which aim to help patients with genetic kidney disease achieve accurate molecular diagnosis and derive personalized prevention and treatment strategies. She has been selected as one of the ISN Emerging Leaders by the ISN Emerging Leaders Program. She is a new member of the ISN Education Working Group and helped to design the Genetics Curriculum for the ISN Academy. In 2025, she received a KI–ISN Early Career Researcher Award for Clinical Science for her paper in Kidney International.
About the award, Dr. Ma states, “The ISN Mentorship Program fostered growth in my clinical research capability. I truly appreciate the support and teachings of my mentor, Dr. Nora Franceschini.”
Abstract: Targeted whole genome sequencing for diagnosis in adults with chronic kidney disease of unexplained cause – a Hong Kong cohort
The Mentorship Abstract Awards will be presented in the WCN ISN Programs Awards session on March 30, 2026 from 1-2 p.m. Japan Time on Spotlight Stage 2.
Japanese Society of Nephrology.
