TSUI Kwok-Wing Stephen is currently a professor and vice director (research) in the School of Biomedical Sciences, directors of the Hong Kong Bioinformatics Centre and the Centre for Microbial Genomics and Proteomics, and associate director of the CUHK-BGI Innovation Institute of Trans-omics in the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). In 1995, he received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Biochemistry at CUHK and his PhD thesis is related to the decoding of the human genome. He was then appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Biochemistry Department in 1997 and promoted to the full professorship in 2004. He was a former member of the International HapMap Consortium working on the single nucleotide polymorphisms of human chromosome 3p. He is very interested in bioinformatics, comparative genomics and molecular biology of clinical pathogens