Dr. Diego Luis MEDINA, from Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Napoli-Italy, gave a seminar at the School of Chinese Medicine on 15 Jun, 2016. The title of his presentation was “Lysosomal calcium signaling regulates autophagy via calcineurin and TFEB”. Dr. Medina’s is a Head of High Content Screening Laboratory, TIGEM. His research interest involves the discovery of new 'druggable' targets and the development of pharmacological strategies to treat rare genetic diseases by using cell biology approaches and high-content imaging technology. He has published many papers inhigh-rank journals such as Sciences, Nature Cell Biology, Development Cell, Autophagy.

Prof. Min Li with Dr. Diego L. Medina (left)

Dr. Diego L. Medina with academic staff from SCM of HKBU

Dr. Diego L. Medina with Prof. Min Li and her team members