Becky MingyaoMa Hong KongHong Kong, China

Dr. Becky Ma is a Clinical Assistant Professor working at the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Ma graduated from the University of Hong Kong with distinctions. She underwent her training in Nephrology and Advanced Internal Medicine at Queen Mary Hospital and Tung Wah Hospital. She has been awarded the Best Thesis Gold award by the Hong Kong College of Physicians and Distinguished Young Fellow by the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine. Becky has great interest in monogenetic kidney diseases and undertook a postdoctoral research fellowship in Precision Medicine at Columbia University Center for Precision Medicine and Genomics. She has been awarded the Hong Kong Health and Medical Research Fund Research Fellowship Grant, Hong Kong College of Physicians-Hong Kong Genome Institute Training Grant for excellence in genomic medicine and Hong Kong Academy of Medicine-Hong Kong Genome Institute Research Excellence Grant. Becky has been accredited as the First Genetics and Genomics Fellow in Hong Kong by the College of Physicians. She established a local cohort of genetic kidney disease and helped to set up the Genetic Kidney Disease Clinics at Queen Mary Hospital, which aims to help patients with genetic kidney disease to achieve accurate molecular diagnosis and derive personalized prevention and treatment strategies. She has been selected as one of the Emerging Leaders by the International Society of Nephrology Emerging Leaders Program and has received the Early Career Researcher Award for the Best Clinical Science Paper by the Kidney International and International Society of Nephrology.