Professor Lap-Chee Tsui is the 14^th Vice Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong. He is currently the Founding President of the Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong and President of Victor and William Fung Foundation, Hong Kong. He is also the Director of Qiushi Academy for Advanced Studies and Master of the Residential College of International Campus, Zhejiang University, China and the University of Toronto’s Emeritus University Professor.

Professor Tsui received his bachelor and master degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his PhD from University of Pittsburgh in 1979. He is world renowned for his research work in human genetics and genomics, notably the identification of the gene for Cystic Fibrosis in 1989 and, later, other human genetic diseases while conducting a comprehensive characterization of human chromosome 7.

Professor Tsui has over 300 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 65 invited book chapters. He is the recipient of many national and international prizes, and other awards including the 2018 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize, 16 honorary doctoral degrees, the Orders of Canada and Ontario, Knight of the Légion d’Honneur of France, and the Grand Bauhinia Medal of Hong Kong. He is also Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Academia Sinica, and Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of USA and Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.