Education

Current Positions

• Lecturer, School of Life Sciences, CUHK
• Assistant Programme Director, Biochemistry Programme, School of Life Sciences, CUHK

Research Interests

• Protein Biochemistry
• Metabolic diseases

Representative Publications

• Ng TB, Lam JS, Wong JH, Lam SK, Ngai PH, Wang HX, Chu KT, Chan WY: Differential abilities of the mushroom ribosome-inactivating proteins hypsin and velutin to perturb normal development of cultured mouse embryos. Toxicol In Vitro. 2010, 24(4):1250-7.
• Chan WY, Ng TB, Lam JS, Wong JH, Chu KT, Ngai PH, Lam SK, Wang HX: The mushroom ribosome-inactivating protein lyophyllin exerts deleterious effects on mouse embryonic development in vitro. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2010, 85(4):985-93.
• Wong JH, Ng TB, Cheung RC, Ye XJ, Wang HX, Lam SK, Lin P, Chan YS, Fang EF, Ngai PH, Xia LX, Ye XY, Jiang Y, Liu F: Proteins with antifungal properties and other medicinal applications from plants and mushrooms. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2010, 87(4):1221-35.
• NG TB, NGAI HK, CHEUNG CF, WONG H, WANG HX, YE XJ, FANG F and CHAN YS: White Cabbage (Brassica chinensis) Seeds and Their Health Promoting Activities. Nuts and seeds in health and disease edited by VR Preedy, RR Watson and VB Patel (1st ed.), pp.1159-1163. United States of America: Elsevier Inc., 2011.
• NG TB, LAM SK, CHEUNG CF, WONG H, WANG HX, NGAI HK, YE XJ and FANG F: Therapeutic Use of Caper (Capparis spinosa) Seeds. Nuts and seeds in health and disease edited by VR Preedy, RR Watson and VB Patel (1st ed.), pp. 284-289. United States of America: Elsevier Inc., 2011.

Research Grants

• Co-Principal Investigator, Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant (TDLEG) for the 2022-25 Triennium awarded by The Chinese University of Hong Kong for “ Ray’s Wonderland of Virtual Reality ~the Olympic Games for Science, Biolab Safety and Animal Ethics Education” during the period 2023-01 to 2025-04 for the sum of HKD 698,393.00.
• Co-Principal Investigator, Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant (TDLEG) for the 2019-22 Triennium awarded by CUHK for “Mixed reality simulation: a new pedagogy for learning high-risk cell culture techniques and biosafety” during the period 2019-12 to 2022-04 for the sum of HKD 488,071.00.
• Co-Investigator, Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant (TDLEG) for the 2022-25 Triennium awarded by CUHK for “Developing an inter-faculty collaborative experiential program to foster students’ science communication skills” during the period 2023-01 to 2025-04 for the sum of HKD 876,423.00.
• Co-Investigator, Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant (TDLEG) for the 2019-22 Triennium awarded by CUHK for “Enhancing Scientific Communication Through a Life Sciences and General Education partnership” during the period 2020-01 to 2022-04 for the sum of HKD 764,102.00.
• Co-Investigator, Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant (TDLEG) for the 2019-22 Triennium, awarded by The Chinese University of Hong Kong for “Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL) in Bioscience” during the period of 2019-12 to 2022-04 for the sum of HKD 500,000.

Professional Activities

• The Hong Kong Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Comparative Education Research Center
• Hong Kong Association for Science and Mathematics Education