Professor FONG Wing Ping
Address
(Office): Rm 608 Mong Man Wai Building
(Lab): Rm 610 Mong Man Wai Building

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(Office): (852) 3943 6868
(Lab): (852) 3943 6398

Fax (852) 2603 7246
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Education1987 Ph.D. Biochemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
1983 B.Sc. Biochemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
PositionProfessor, School of Life Sciences
Head, Chung Chi College
Research InterestsNovel Photosensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy
Yeast Pathogenesis and Engineering

Representative Publications
Zhou Y, Cheung YK, Ma C, Zhao S, Gao D, Lo PC, Fong WP, Wong KS, Ng DKP (2018) Endoplasmic reticulum-localized two-photon-absorbing boron dipyrromethenes as advanced photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 61:3952-3961.
Feng L, Yuen YL, Xu J, Liu X, Chan MY, Wang K, Fong WP, Cheung WT, Lee SS (2017) Identification and characterization of a novel PPARα-regulated and 7α-hydroxyl bile acid-preferring cytosolic sulfotransferase mL-STL (Sult2a8). Journal of Lipid Research. 58:1114-1131.
Tsang PW, Fong WP, Samaranayake LP (2017) Candida albicans orf19.3727 encodes phytase activity and is essential for human tissue damage. PLoS One. 12:e0189219.
Yeung HY, Lo PC, Ng DKP, Fong WP (2017) Anti-tumor immunity of BAM-SiPc-mediated vascular photodynamic therapy in a BALB/c mouse model. Cellular and Molecular Immunology. 14:223-234.
Choi PW, Yang J, Ng SK, Feltmate C, Muto MG, Hasselblatt K, Lafferty-Whyte K, JeBailey L, MacConaill L, Welch WR, Fong WP, Berkowitz RS, Ng SW (2016) Loss of E-cadherin disrupts ovarian epithelial inclusion cyst formation and collective cell movement in ovarian cancer cells. Oncotarget. 7:4110-4121.
Fong WP, Yeung HY, Lo PC, Ng DKP (2014) Photodynamic therapy. In Ho AH, Kim D, Somekh MG (ed) Handbook of photonics for biomedical engineering. Springer Netherlands.1-20.
Rodriguez N, Yang J, Hasselblatt K, Zhou Y, Rauh-Hain J, Ng SK, Choi PW, Fong WP, Agar N, Welch W, Berkowitz R, Ng SW (2012) Casein kinase I epsilon interacts with mitochondrial proteins for the growth and survival of ovarian cancer cells. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 4:952-963.
Tang WK, Wong KB, Lam YM, Cha SS, Cheng CH, Fong WP (2008) The crystal structure of seabream antiquitin reveals the structural basis of its substrate specificity. FEBS Letters. 582:3090-3096.
Leung SCH, Lo PC, Ng DKP, Liu WK, Fung KP, Fong WP (2008) Photodynamic activity of BAM-SiPc, an unsymmetrical bisamino silicon(IV) phthalocyanine, in tumour-bearing nude mice. British Journal of Pharmacology. 154:4-12.
Fong WP, Cheng CHK, Tang WK (2006) Antiquitin, a relatively unexplored member in the superfamily of aldehyde dehydrogenases with diversified physiological functions. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 63:2881-2885.
Research Grants2018-2020, RGC Earmarked Grant, Immunogenic Cell Death in the Anti-tumor Photodynamic Action of BAM-SiPc, a Silicon(IV) Phthalocyanine Derivative, $1,034,382
2007-2011, RGC Earmarked Grant, Crystal Structure and Biological Activities of Human Antiquitin: Mutation and Functional Analyses, $942,677
2005-2008, RGC Earmarked Grant, Development of Novel Phthalocyanine-based Photosensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy: From Chemical Synthesis to in vitro and in vivo Anti-cancer Effects, $718,957
2003-2006, RGC Earmarked Grant, Molecular and Functional Studies of Antiquitin from Fish, $1,153,000