Sun's Lab @ HKU
Our Research Group
Prof. Hongzhe Sun
Chair Professor of Chemistry, Norman & Cecilia Yip Professor in Bioinorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong
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BSc, MSc, PhD, FRSC
Acting Director, Research Division for Chemistry
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Email: hsun@hku.hk
Phone: +852 2859-8974
Fax: +852 2857-1586
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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2018−present: Norman & Cecilia Yip Professor in Bioinorganic Chemistry
2018−present: Chair Professor
2007−2018: Professor
2004−2007: Associate Professor
1998−2004: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong
1996− 1998: GlaxoWellcome Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, The University of Edinburgh, Great Britain
1993− 1996: Ph.D., The University of London (Birkbeck College) Great Britain
1990− 1993: Research Associate and Lecturer, Coordination Chemistry Institute, Nanjing University, P.R. China
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AWARDS & HONORS
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2023: HKU Innovator Award
2023: Dalton Horizon Prize (RSC)
2022: AsBIC Outstanding Achievement Award
2021: Grand Prize of Science and Technology Award of CAIA (China Association for Instrumental Analysis)
2017−2018: UC Berkeley Earl L Muetterties Memorial Lectureship
2016: WuXi AppTec Life Science & Chemistry Research Award
2011−2013: Honorary Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU
2011−2014: Honorary Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU
2011−2012: “Thesis adviser award”, Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Ltd
2010−2011: Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, Croucher Foundation (HK)
2005: Outstanding Young Scholar Award (Type ‘B’), National Science Foundation of China
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MEMBERSHIPS
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2011−present: Fellow of Royal society of Chemistry (FRSC)
2003−present: Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC)
2003−2020: Steering Committee of Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry
2006−2020: Chairman, the Steering Committee of Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry
2021−2023: Associate editor, The Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (JBIC, Springer)
2010−present: Series Editor, Metallobiology (RSC)
2008−2014: Editorial Board of Metallomics (RSC, UK)
2012−present: Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry (JIB, Elsevier)
BMC Biochemistry (BioMed Central and Springer)
2003−present: The Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance
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Current Members
Alumni
Dr. Tiffany Ka-Yan Ip
2024 PhD
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Dr. Jennifer, Yuen-Ting Wong
2024 PhD
Dr. Ying Zhou
2019 PhD
Associate Professor, Southeast University
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Dr. Xueting Yan
2021 Postdoc fellow
Research associate, Sichuan University
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Dr. Qianlan Fang
2022 Postdoc fellow​
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Dr. Yushan Xia
2022 Postdoc fellow
Postdoc fellow, Southern University of Science and Technology
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Dr. Zhenkun Cao
​2021 PhD
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Dr. Runming Wang
2018 PhD
Associate Professor, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School
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Dr. Xiaohan Xu
2021 PhD​
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Dr. Haibo Wang
2020 Research Associate, 2018 PhD
​Associate Professor, Hangzhou Institute of Medicine Chinese Academy of Science
​Dr. Qi Zhang
2019 PhD
Dr. Mohamad Koohi-Moghadam
2019 PhD
Research assistant professor in Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong
Dr. Nan Jiang
2019 PhD
Lecturer in School of Environmental Ecology and Biological Engineering, Wuhan Institution of Technology
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Dr. Tsz-Pui Jason Lai
2018 PhD
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Dr. Xuqiao Hu
2017 PhD
Dr. Yang Ya
2017 PhD
Research Assistant in Foshan University
Miss. Ailun Chao
2016 MPhil
Investigator in Drug and Medical Device Adverse Reaction Monitoring Center of Shanghai
Dr. Yuchuan Wang
2015 PhD
Research fellow in Institute of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering (CAS)
Dr. Yuen-Yan Candice Chang
2015 PhD
Postdoctoral fellow in NIH, United States
Dr. Xinming Yang
2014 PhD
Associate Professor in Sun Yat-Sen University
Dr. Ligang Hu
2014 PhD
Professor in Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dr. Minji Wang
2014 PhD
Associate Professor in East China Normal University, Shanghai
​Dr. Yau-tsz, Angel, Lai
2013 PhD
Chemist in Government Laboratory, HKSAR
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Dr. Yifan Hong
2013 PhD
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Dr. Feijuan Huang
2013 PhD
Research Assistant in Shenzhen 2nd People's Hospital
Dr. Tianfan Cheng
2012 PhD
Postdoctoral fellow in Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong
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Dr. Xinghao Wang
2012 PhD
Presidential fellow in Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Shanghai
Dr. Wei Xia
2011 PhD
Associate professor in Sun Yat-Sen University
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Dr. Cheuk-nam, Cyrus, Tsang
2011 PhD
Chemist in Government Laboratory, HKSAR
Dr. Xiubo Du
2010 PhD
Associate Professor in Shenzhen University
Dr. Yibo Zeng
2009 PhD
Sous Chef in Sofitel Washington DC
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Dr. Shujian Cun
2009 PhD
Hemet Unifed School, LA
Dr. Nan Yang
2008 PhD, 2011 Post-doc
Senior Postdoctoral Scientist in Rosalind Franklin Institute, Oxford
Dr. Xuesong Sun
2007 PhD
Professor in Jinan University
Dr. Rong Chen
2006 PhD
Professor in Wuhan Institution of Technology
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Dr. Ruiguang Ge
2006 PhD
Associate professor in Sun Yat-Sen University
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Dr. Siu-cheong Yan
2004 PhD
Research Assistant in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Miss. Ka-yee Szeto
2002 MPhil
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​Mr. Jack Harris
Exchange Student (09/2010-05/2011)
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Mr. Simon Coplowe
Exchange Student (09/2011-05/2012)
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Mr. David Wills
Exchange Student (09/2014-05/2015)
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Mr. Daniel Tritton
Exchange Student (09/2015-05/2016)
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Miss. Hay Geraldin
Exchange Student (08/2015-05/2016)