Prof. Dennis Lo: Trailblazing Non-invasive Prenatal Diagnosis
11 May 2016
Prof. Dennis Lo, Fellow of S.H. Ho College, is the Director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, the Li Ka Shing Professor of Medicine and Professor of Chemical Pathology, CUHK. He discovered the presence of cell-free fetal DNA in the plasma of pregnant women in 1997. After more than a decade of research, he introduced a non-invasive prenatal diagnosis for Down syndrome in 2011. The technology is now widely used in numerous countries in Asia, Europe and America. It is estimated that this new technology will be adopted by public hospitals in Hong Kong in two years. Recently, Professor Lo and his research team have achieved another major breakthrough in applying DNA sequencing techniques to cancer detection, contributing towards early stage cancer diagnosis and hence prompt treatment. An exclusive interview on his trailblazing footprint has been published in Asian Scientist.
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12 May 2016
Asia’s Scientific Trailblazers: Dennis Lo (Asian Scientist)
