Ka Hou CHU received his A.B. degree in Biological Sciences
at the University of California at Berkeley, USA, in 1976, and his Ph.D. in Biological
Oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution Joint Program in Oceanography, USA, in 1984. He was the founding director of the
School of Life Sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently
a Professor Emeritus of the school, an Honorary Fellow of the New Asia College of
the university, and a Visiting Scholar of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include molecular marine biology and biotechnology and the biology of
crustaceans.
Christine Yee Yan WAI graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with first class honors in Biology in 2010. She pursued postgraduate studies and research at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and was awarded her Ph.D. in Biology in 2015. She then received her postdoctoral training at The School of Life Sciences, followed by the Department of Pediatrics at the same university. Her research interest has been in the field of seafood allergy, specifically in designing diagnostic platforms and safe and effective therapies for the prevention and treatment of shellfish allergy and defining the mechanisms of immunotherapy that gained her four U.S. non-provisional patents. She was awarded the AXA Post-Doctoral Fellowships 2017 campaign to conduct a project on elucidating the efficacy and modulatory mechanism of next generation hypoallergen DNA vaccines.
