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Lap-Chee Tsui - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Lap-chee Tsui BA, MA, PhD, O.C. O.Ont. (徐立之 pinyin: Xú Lìzhī; born December 21, 1950) was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong in May 2002 and assumed office as the fourteenth Vice-Chancellor of the university with effect from September 1 2002. |
 | | Tsui was awarded his bachelor's (with only 3rd class honours) and master's degrees from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1972 and 1974, respectively. |
 | | Tsui became internationally acclaimed in 1989 when he and his team identified the defective gene, namely Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Regulator (CFTR), that causes cystic fibrosis, which is a major breakthrough in human genetics. |
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