Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Hi, I’m Angel 👋 I’m one of 2 Chevening Scholars from Hong Kong 🇭🇰 (2024/25 cohort), with 5+ years of experience supporting clinical and translational research across Hong Kong, the UK, and Singapore. My work has focused on Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and biomarker research, where I’ve supported clinically embedded studies spanning ethics submissions, patient consent, study coordination, governance-compliant documentation, and data quality management within hospital-based and multidisciplinary research settings. Across these roles, I’ve worked closely with clinicians, radiographers, investigators, and industry partners to deliver research within real-world clinical workflows. These experiences have shaped my interest in how scientific evidence is translated into medical communication, healthcare implementation, and cross-functional collaboration beyond academia. I’m particularly interested in opportunities at the intersection of Medical Affairs, translational science, clinical research, and scientific communication — especially in areas related to neuroscience, ageing, and innovative healthcare delivery. Outside of research, I run @agewellwithangel 🌱 — a bilingual platform exploring brain health, dementia awareness, and how science can be made more accessible across communities and cultures. 📩 Always open to meaningful conversations in Medical Affairs, clinical research, and biopharma.
- Coordinate alumni socials and cross-sector events involving clinicians, academics, NGOs and policy partners to strengthen community engagement and healthcare education. - Support dementia-awareness projects and community-led public health talks featuring geriatricians and neurologists, contributing to patient and carer understanding across HK
One of two scholars from Hong Kong 🇭🇰 in the 24/25 cohort, awarded the UK government’s Chevening Scholarship for future leaders, fully-funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). - Completed MSc Brain & Mind Sciences at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, specialising in dementia and neuroimaging research. - Represented Hong Kong at official Chevening events (orientation, conference, farewell) and joined a global community of 60,000+ alumni committed to thought leadership and bringing real-world impact. - Engaged in current research and advocacy through conferences (ARUK, DPUK), volunteering, and public outreach — making brain health resources and knowledge more accessible to communities in both English and Chinese. - Co-launched a fundraising initiative with fellow scholar to support the Alzheimer’s Society UK's campaign through London’s Memory Walk 2025. ✨ This year was transformative — building cross-cultural networks, strengthening leadership through science communication, and reaffirming my mission to bridge neuroscience research with real-world impact.
Represented UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences as a student ambassador during my MSc studies, which has deepened my passion for science communication — connecting academic research with diverse student audiences worldwide. - Shared my experience as an international student and Chevening Scholar to support prospective students considering UCL. - Assisted with outreach and engagement activities highlighting UCL’s research strengths in neuroscience, dementia, and mental health. - Advocated for inclusive, accessible pathways into higher education and research.
As part of the Human brain Histology team, I have focused on developing bioimage analysis workflows integrated with AI-assisted tools. These pipelines have been instrumental in validating the roles of risk/protective genes in modulation of molecular pathways, as biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease (AD), for doctoral projects within Prof. Nancy Ip laboratory at HKCeND of HKUST. Notably, I collaborated with SMART lab at HKUST and neuropathologists, where we developed a deep learning model achieving 96% accuracy to segment and classify plaque subtypes. My research primarily involves comparing patterns of molecular biomarker expressions using immunostaining in post-mortem Human brain tissue samples obtained from AD patients and cognitively normal controls. Specifically, I investigate the histopathological differences between carriers and non-carriers of the ApoE4 risk gene variant, comparing spatial relationships between neuronal-glial cell populations and AD pathological hallmarks like amyloid-β plaques and Tau deposits. I utilize (multiplex) immunofluorescence bioimages, perform microscopic analysis of Abeta plaque-associated microenvironments, and quantify cell-cell or pathology-cell interactions using 3D models constructed from confocal stacks. I have designed and implemented analysis pipelines that enable (semi-)automatic quantification, combining parameter-based segmentation with machine learning-based classifiers for amyloid-β, tau tangles, neuritic plaques and neuroglia. My customised implementation of 2D and 3D analytic methods, involved well-established plugins from ImageJ, QuPath, Imaris, and AIVIA, which facilitate the examination of microanatomical and phenotypical features of histopathological hallmarks and their neighbouring objects. Our analyses are hypothesis-driven, aiming to extract relevant biological information within compositional heterogeneity based on observed patterns of spatial organization.
Worked as Researcher under the Future Cities Laboratory module - Cognition, Perception, and Behaviour in Urban Environments. - Recruitment and scheduling of participants - Conduct VR/desktop behavioural testing and wayfinding experiments - Pre-processing and analysis of behavioural and semi-qualitative data - Assist with the experimental design, literature review, also write-up of progress/ final reports and manuscripts. Projects: (1) User-centred behavioural evaluation of Dynamic Guidance System design concepts in transit hub, for dynamic wayfinding (2) Appraisals and Preferences of design variations for boundary/edge conditions of pedestrian walkways