24/12/2019

(1st from left) Professor Dennis LO received the prize from (2nd from left) Professor Samuel Chao Chung TING, a Nobel laureate in physics and chair of the Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award Committee, (2nd from right) Professor XU Ningsheng, president of Fudan University; and (1st from right) Mr LIU Fuhua, representative from Zhongzhi Enterprise Group.

Professor Dennis Lo Received the Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award as Professor Lo as the First Chinese Recipient

Professor Dennis Lo has recently received the Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award for his “remarkable contributions to Non-invasive Prenatal Testing benefiting the health of mothers and infants, for fundamental research on cell-free DNA molecules, and for leadership in the development of new diagnostic testing to detect circulating tumour DNA allowing cancer diagnosis in pre-symptomatic patients”.

Professor Lo is the first Chinese recipient of the Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award and the second award given in the field of biomedicine.

Professor Lo remarked, “I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to the organiser for giving this honour to me and my research team. We will continue to push forward our research and translate the discoveries for the good of humankind, to improve their health and wellbeing.”
 

About Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award

The Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award was founded in 2015 in recognition of scientists from around the world who have made fundamental and groundbreaking achievements in biomedicine, physics and mathematics. The Award is alternated every three years in these three fields and accepts global nomination. This year marks the Award’s fourth year, and the awardees in 2016 and 2017 received Nobel Prizes after winning this Award. For more details: http://fdsif.fudan.edu.cn/en/.

(From left) Featured in the photo are Professor Samuel Chao Chung TING, a Nobel laureate in physics and chair of the Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award Committee; Professor Dennis LO; Professor XU Ningsheng, president of Fudan University; and Mr LIU Fuhua, representative from Zhongzhi Enterprise Group.

Professor Lo made a presentation titled “From Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing to Cancer Screening, and Beyond” at the prize presentation ceremony.

Original source: Press Release on 22 December 2019, CUHK Communication and Public Relations Office Website Two CUHK Scholars Named World’s “Top 20 Translational Researchers” | Professor Dennis Lo Receiving the Honour for the Third Consecutive Year