Ralf Jauch

#ISSCR2025 co-chaired by Prof Kathryn Cheah culminated in June with a panel session featuring members of the HK Spinal Muscular Atrophy community, highlighting the transformative power of patient advocacy, clinical expertise & gov't collaboration in improving treatment access.

Our PIs are active in start-ups, spin-offs, and InnoHK centres, advancing biomedicine and bioinformatics. We drive translational research and KE activities and interdisciplinary collaborations to enhance HK's digital-tech & innovation leadership. 2/2

The Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation is hosting a symposium on ALS and other neuromuscular diseases. The symposium will be at Cloud Park International Conference Center during October 28th to 31st! Find more details here: symposia.smart.org.cn/sym/event/Futu…

A big thank you to @ISSCR for hosting @Revive_Restore’s Innovation Showcase this year, in Hong Kong! What a pleasure to be joined by some old friends and new at our Meet-Up Hub, co-organised by @t_n_kohler.

Exciting news! @CTSCB_HK is exhibiting at #ISSCR2025 in Hong Kong! Come visit us at Booth No. 1607 to explore the lastest breakthroughs in stem cell research! We can’t wait to connect! invt.io/1txblstccqx @ISSCR #ISSCR2025 #CTSCB #StemCells #EPSC #Innovation

The ChimeraX 1.10 release candidate and daily builds can predict small complexes of proteins, nucleic acids and small molecules using Boltz on your Mac, Windows or Linux computer. rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/data/…

Join us for QBRI’s External Seminar Series: “The Directed and Natural Evolution of the Molecular Toolkit of Stem Cells” @HBKU

We're excited to announce the official QMUL Centre for Epigenetics Launch Conference 2025! 🎉 To find out more and book your free ticket, please follow the link below: eventbrite.co.uk/e/qmul-centre-… @QMUL @Barts_Charity @blizard_inst @QMULepigenetics

Join us in-person on May 12 for a stimulating KE seminar by #HKU Prof Benjamin Becker on AI-inspired mind reading, brain scans and mental health, hosted by Prof Ralf Jauch @jauchr. Do stay behind to network. Register today: hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cO…

Thanks, @HKLaureateForum, for letting me indulge not only in the history of #stemcells but also return to my own roots in Jena, home to the Villa Medusa

Just out in Cell: the Asian Immune Diversity Atlas (AIDA) is a 5-nation single-cell blood atlas. We show that humans are remarkably diverse in gene expression and cell phenotype, with disease implications #healthcaredisparities #PrecisionMedicine [tinyurl.com/AIDA-Cell-2025]. [1/14]

Three Co-Chairs of the ISSCR Program Committee discussed the upcoming #ISSCR2025 meeting in #HK on The Stem Cell Podcast, and #HKUSBMS Prof. Kathryn Cheah emphasised the importance of international participation and diversity among speakers and attendees. Take a listen.

holy shit MIT researchers just turned skin cells directly into neurons without stem cell intermediate, 100-fold efficiency boost, and they actually worked when transplanted into mouse brains 1/

HKUMed has climbed to rank 24th globally and 1st in Hong Kong in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025: Medicine.

I taught an LLM to optimize proteins. It proposed a better carbon capture enzyme. Introducing Pro-1, an 8b param reasoning model trained using GRPO towards a physics based reward function for protein stability. It takes in a protein sequence + text description + previous…

R.I.P. Prof Sheldrick. I did my first lab rotation in his lab during my M.Sc/PhD studies in Goettingen

New #pluripotency research reveals how mutations in #SOX17 dimerization interface at position 57 can turn it into a pluripotency inducer. Read more! #reprogramming #iPSCs #XEN #SOX2 #pioneerfactors @ISSCR @CellPressNews @GairdnerAwards @SickKidsNews ow.ly/1eIq50UWZfu

we are proud of you very well deserved Haoqing

🎉Big congrats to Dr. @haoqing_hu @CTSCB_HK for winning the Hong Kong Genome Institute Prize 2024 for the best research thesis in Genome Science!👏Her outstanding work on engineered SOX17 (eSOX17) under Prof. Ralf Jauch @jauchr @hkusbms explored its role in cell fate conversion.

It's really just that glutamate at position that 57 stops SOX17 from being an ultra-SOX when making pluripotent stem cells, and it does not really matter which residue we put there. Congrats to @Jessie_HSY (now @boroviak_lab ), @haoqing_hu and the team cell.com/stem-cell-repo…