News and Announcements
The 6th “Health, I Care!” Quiz Competition, organized by the Student Association of Faculty of Health Sciences (FHSSA), was held recently in a great success with nearly one hundred students of various faculties taking part. Twelve teams gave ... + More
The 6th “Health, I Care!” Quiz Competition enhances students’ health knowledge
Zihan LIU, a PhD student of FHS, recently won the logo design in the 40th Anniversary of University of Macau Logo and Slogan Design Competition. The judging panel reviewed 83 entries of logo design and made a professional ... + More
FHS student receives logo design champion
A research team in the University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), led by Associate Professor Xiaoling XU, has discovered a tumour evolution process through which the tumours initiate from cells with single nucleotide variants (SNVs) ... + More
FHS makes major progress in breast cancer metastasis research
While the browns were coming as a comforting quilt to the earth, the University of Macau ushered a new cohort of students. They have started their golden time of university life which will fly like an arrow. What ... + More
Seize the days in university for bettering yourselves
In the summer of 2020, a total of 13 local high school students participated in the “Summer Laboratory Work Experience Programme 2020”. They went to different research teams of the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), University of Macau ... + More
Summer Laboratory Work Experience Programme 2020 boosts local high school students’ interests in biomedical science
Prof. Hanming SHEN in the Faculty of Health Sciences is a dedicated researcher who is also passionate about photography. He says: ‘Love of photography is in my DNA. When I press the shutter button to capture beauty on ... + More
Prof. Hanming SHEN: Love of Photography Is in My DNA
The Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) held two sessions of orientations to welcome more than 100 new undergraduate and postgraduate students for the 2020/2021 academic year on 3 September. Speaking at the orientations, Prof. Chuxia DENG, Dean of ... + More
FHS holds orientations for new students 2020/2021
Caveolin-1 (CAV1) is an important tumour suppressor in breast cancer. Its deficiency and mutation can affect the autophagy and lysosome, thus making breast cancer cells more susceptible to autophagy/lysosome inhibitors. Faculty of Health Sciences Professor Hanming SHEN suggests ... + More
Treating Breast Cancer with Autophagy Inhibitors
According to GLOBOCAN, in 2018, there were about 18.1 million new cancer cases and 9.6 million cancer deaths worldwide, of which 2.1 million were female breast cancer cases causing 630,000deaths. Indeed, breast cancer has become the leading cause ... + More
A New Mechanism for Inhibiting Breast Cancer Metastasis and Recurrence
The University of Macau (UM) is making rapid progress in scientific research. A few years ago, UM began to vigorously promote interdisciplinary research through a strategy that can be summarised as ‘highlighting characteristics’, ‘capitalising on advantages’, ‘building peaks’, ... + More
