Welcome to the Ninth Macau Symposium on Biomedical Sciences 2023
The Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) of the University of Macau (UM) is delighted to welcome you to our annual faculty highlight: Macau Symposium on Biomedical Sciences (MSBS).
In the celebration of the 10th Anniversary of FHS in 2023, we are organizing the Ninth Macau Symposium on Biomedical Sciences 2023 (MSBS2023) at University Hall (N2) and Multi-function Hall (N1) of UM, with a theme of “HEALTH”. This year, MSBS2023 is inviting more renowned scientists for more insightful talks that makes this year’s MSBS a four-day event from 14 to 17 Jun 2023.
Our annual MSBS aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results with topics on but not limited to Diagnostic Imaging and Drug Delivery, Cancer Immunology, Translational Trial/ Personalized Cancer Therapy, Cancer as a Systemic Disease, Tumour Microenvironment and Metastasis, Metabolism, Signaling Networks and Therapeutics, Developmental Induction, Single Cell Analysis, Stem Cells, Epigenetics, Infectious Diseases, Genome Editing, Reprograming, and New Technology. It also provide a premier interdisciplinary platform for direct and efficient communications that foster new scientific ideas and lead to novel advances in the biomedical science field.
MSBS has been the hallmark event of FHS since 2014. Last year, we were grateful to have gathered over 500 participants and scholars from different regions. Particularly, it was our pleasure to have Xiaodong Wang of National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China as our keynote speaker in MSBS2022.
In MSBS2023, we are very honoured to have Dennis Lo of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; and Mien-Chie Hung of the China Medical University, Taiwan, China as our keynote speakers. In addition, other renowned scientists, including Richard J. Youle of National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, USA; Weihong Tan of the Institute of Basic Medicine and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang, China; Liang Tong of Columbia University, USA; Alexander Hoffmann of University of California, Los Angeles, USA; Gourisankar Ghosh of University of California San Diego, USA; Hong Zhang of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Fan Zhang of Fudan University, Shanghai, China; and Yehuda Assaraf of The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, will also be sharing their latest research.
On behalf of the Organization Committee, it is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in this exciting event. I sincerely look forward to seeing you at UM in June 2023 and wish you a fruitful meeting.
For more information about the MSBS2023, please contact Ms. Stacie Wong at um_fhs@um.edu.mo.
Conference Chair
Chuxia DENG
Dean and Chair Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Macau
