Zher Yee OOI

• PhD Student at The University of Hong Kong
• Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (HKPF) awardee 
• HKU Presidential Scholarship awardee

Zher Yee is a final-year PhD student in the Faculty of Medicine at HKU. She obtained her BSc degree from Imperial College London and started her research journey in Professor Carmen Wong’s laboratory. Her study focuses on elucidating the mechanisms and regulatory pathways underlying metabolic alterations in liver cancer, with the goal of exploiting these vulnerabilities through dietary manipulation of nutrient availability within tumours. 

Her research aimed to explore dietary interventions as safe, non-pharmacological, and translationally feasible strategies not only to disrupt cancer metabolism but also potentially reverse immunosuppression in tumours, thereby enhancing the efficacy of existing therapies. 

Zher Yee actively shares her research at local and international conferences and has received several accolades, including Best Presenter Awards at the Inter-University Life Sciences Symposium and the HKU-Med Postgraduate Student Symposium. Beyond her research, she serves as a Graduate School Ambassador, where she shares her motivation for research and inspires students to pursue postgraduate studies.