Dennis Lo
Hong Kong
Creating paradigm shifts in medical diagnostics using liquid biopsy - Hugh de Wardener Lecture
Plenary 4
Tuesday, March 31 | 12:15 – 1:15 p.m.
Dennis Lo became the ninth vice-chancellor and president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2025. He also serves as the Li Ka Shing professor of medicine and professor of chemical pathology at CUHK.
Professor Lo holds a BA from the University of Cambridge and an MD and DPhil degrees from the University of Oxford. Philosophy degrees from the University of Oxford. He began his academic career at Oxford before returning to Hong Kong in 1997, where he made the groundbreaking discovery of fetal DNA in maternal plasma. His pioneering work laid the foundation for noninvasive prenatal testing and advanced the field of liquid biopsy for cancer detection.
He is the recipient of numerous international honors, including the 2022 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2021), the King Faisal International Prize in Medicine (2014), and several others.
Professor Lo is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, a founding member and director of the Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.