Dr. Hor Hong Huan (Catherine) PhD

Dr. HOR Hong-Huan Catherine, a Penang-kia, earned her Ph.D. in Developmental Molecular Genetics from the Department of Biochemistry at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). She then moved on as a Research Fellow at the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, where she was awarded the Young Individual Research Grant from the Ministry of Health, Singapore.­­

Currently, Dr. Hor is an Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), where she establishes her own research group as the Principal Investigator. She was awarded the prestigious Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) from the Hong Kong Research Grant Council, leading an international team of scientists to investigate the cellular and neurobiology aspects of viral infection. Her current research focuses on understanding the molecular and cellular pathology of hereditary neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders, with a particular emphasis on deciphering the roles of the primary cilium, a crucial cell-cell signaling organelle. Her projects utilize mouse genetic disease models and human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for disease modeling and investigations of ciliopathy-like and neurological disorders.­­