Location:
HONG KONG, , CHINA
Post Date:
Oct 9, 2016 2:50 AM
TAG ID:
scmpphotos837074
(RM)
Credit:
Jonathan Wong/SCMP/Newscom
Format:
5110 x 2676 Color JPEG
Photographer:
Jonathan Wong
Keywords:
HKU, MEDICAL, STEM CELLS, HEALTH
Release Status:
No Model Release, No Property Release
Caption:
(L to R) The Second People's Hospital of Shenzhen Clinical Professor and Head of Division of Hematology Professor Zhuo Jiaca; juvenile metachromatic leakodystrophy patient Liao Yuan and her mum Ariel Lee Piju; University of Hong Kong apartment of Ophthalmology & Department of Medicine Assistant Professor Dr. Lian Qizhou, and his student's Liang Xiaoting and Gao Fei, at a press conference on the Asia's first genetically modified hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for late juvenile metachromatic leukodystrophy patient (MLD) (led by HKU), at the Mrs Chen Yang Foo Oi Telemedicine Centre on Sassoon Road in Pok Fu Lam. 20MAY15