Professor Ken Yung Kin-lam is Associate Vice President (Research) and Chair Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at the Department of Science and Environmental Studies. 

After graduating from Hong Kong Baptist College (now University), Professor Yung received his MPhil degree from the University of Hong Kong and DPhil degree from the University of Oxford. Prior to joining EdUHK, he served as Ma Pak Leung Endowed Professor in Innovative Neuromedicine and Executive Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Hong Kong Baptist University.

Professor Yung has published over 190 SCI papers in internationally renowned journals. He also served as Review Editor of Frontiers in Neural Circuits, and member of the Editorial Board of Research Integrity and Peer Review. He and his team have developed nanomaterial-based technologies for harvest of autologous neural stem cells and devices for cell differentiation. These technologies have won over 50 international innovation awards, including the Gold Medal and Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury at the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, prizes in the China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and “Creation of Youth” the Greater Bay Area Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. Many of his innovations have been granted patents in mainland China, the United States, Europe, and Hong Kong.  

He has also served as a member of the International Brain Research Organisation and President of the Hong Kong Movement Disorder Society. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association and a member of the expert panel of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China.