Prof. Eric Wai-choi Tse
B Sc (Biomedical Sc) (HK), MBBS (HK), PhD (Cantab), MRCP (UK), FRCPath, FRCP (Edin), FRCP (Glasg), FRCP (Lond), FHKCP, FHKAM (Medicine)
Prof. Tse is a specialist in Haematology and Haematological Oncology, an Honorary Consultant Physician in Queen Mary Hospital, and SH Ho Professor of Haematology and Oncology in the LKS Faculty of Medicine of The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He currently serves as Honorary Treasurer of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine.
He obtained his primary and medical degrees from HKU, Hong Kong, and PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK. Being a clinician scientist, Prof. Tse is active in clinical and translational research. He has published extensively in the areas of haematological malignancies and experimental therapeutics for cancers. A number of research awards have been bestowed on him, including the Max Perutz Prize from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge UK, the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from HKU, and the Sir David Todd Lectureship from the Hong Kong College of Physicians.
As Associate Dean (Research) of the LKS Faculty of Medicine of HKU, he provides strategic leadership and high-level oversight of all research activities in the Faculty. In the Hospital Authority, he is a member of the Hospital Governing Committee of the Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service. In the Hong Kong College of Physicians, he is Chairman of the Specialty Board in Haematology and Haematological Oncology, and Chairman of the Examinations Committee. Prof. Tse also serves in various committees of other local and overseas organisations, including Hong Kong Society of Haematology, Hong Kong Anti-Cancer Society, The Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK, and American Society of Hematology.