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Professor WAYE Miu Yee, Mary
Professor
  • mary-waye@cuhk.edu.hk
  • 3943 9302
  • BSc, PhD
  • ELB624
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Research Interests

Study of Association of Genetic Variants with Human Conditions, including Psychiatric Disorders
Human Genetic Study of Developmental Dyslexia
Studies on Twins and Language Development
Molecular Characterization of Gene Functions Using Multidisciplinary Approaches

Researcher ID/Publons ID

A-9674-2008

ORCID

0000-0003-4038-4654

Scopus ID

7006687733

Biography

Professor Waye received the degree of Bachelor of Science (Hon) from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, majoring in Bacteriology and Immunology, and then took graduate work and received Ph.D. in Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto, Canada. During her graduate period, she received support as a research student of the National Cancer Institute. In completing her Ph.D. she received a King George V Fellowship and received her post-doctoral training at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council, Cambridge, UK as a National Cancer Institute Research Fellow. She did research in the Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid and later also received training in the Division of Structural Studies in Cambridge. She returned to the University of Toronto as an assistant professor. She has been at The Chinese University of Hong Kong since 1992. She was appointed as the Founding Director of the Croucher Laboratory for Human Genomics in 2004.

Awards & Honours

Sub CategoryAwards & Honour
Research AwardSilver Poster Award at Global Proteome Research Congress, Human Proteome Organization (2004)
HonourKing George V Fellowship
HonourTop applicant of National Cancer Institute of Canada Research Fellow (1982)
HonourNCI Post-doctoral Fellowship, National Cancer Institute of Canada (1982–1985)
HonourA publication ranked third in LetPub’s in citation ranking for 2015 Medical articles published by Chinese authors (2015年醫學領域中國作者發表的高被引研究論文排行榜排名第三) :
Liang, W. C., Fu, W. M., Wong, C. W., Wang, Y., Wang, W. M., Hu, G. X., … Waye, M. M. Y. (2015). The lncRNA H19 promotes epithelial to mesenchymal transition by functioning as miRNA sponges in colorectal cancer. ONCOTARGET, 6(26), 22513-22525.

External Service

Sub CategoryAwards & Honours
Honorary AppointmentAdjunct Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2014 – 2016)
Honorary AppointmentAssistant Professor (cross appointment), Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto (1991 – 1992)
EditorshipEditor in chief, Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the Post Genomic Era (2011 – 2014)
EditorshipEditor (Chinese translation), Influenza Report 2006
EditorshipChinese Translator, Supercourse lecture on Myths and Realities of Ebola Virus Disease 2014
Professional ServiceVice-Chairperson, Hong Kong Association of Specific Learning Disabilities (2019 – 2021)
Professional ServiceFounding President, Hong Kong Society of Behavioural and Neural Genetics (2011 – present)
Professional ServicePresident, Hong Kong Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2006 – 2018)
Professional ServiceMember, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1990 – 2014)
Professional ServiceMember, American Society for Cell Biology (1990 – 2014)
Professional ServiceMember, Canadian Society of Cell Biologists (1978 – 2014)
Professional ServiceLifetime Member, Cell Stress Society International (1999 – present)
Professional ServiceMember, Hong Kong Association For Specific Learning Disabilities (2003 – present)
Professional ServiceMember, Hong Kong Society of Medical Genetics (1992 – 2014)
Professional ServiceMember, Human Genome Organization (1999 – 2014)
Professional ServiceMember, Human Proteome Organization (2003 – 2014)
Professional ServiceMember, International Society of Computational Biology (1997 – 2014)
Professional ServiceMember, Society for the study for Endocrinology, Metabolism and Reproduction, Hong Kong (1992 – 2014)
Professional ServiceLifetime Member, Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (1988 – present)
Professional ServiceMember, Hong Kong Society of Child Neurology & Developmental Paediatrics (2005 – present)
Professional ServiceMember of the Grant Panel on Engineering and Science, University of Macau (2011–2016)
Professional ServiceMember of the Research Programme Sub-committee, Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2004 – 2006)
Professional ServiceJudge, Hong Kong Awards for Industry: Technological Achievement, HKSTP (2005 – 2006)
Professional ServiceAd hoc Reviewer, Asia-Pacific Psychiatry, Oncogene, Genomics, Genes, BioTechniques, Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, BMC Medical Genetics, Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry and Experimental Cell Research
Professional ServiceAd hoc Reviewer for grant proposal, Wellcome Trust, UK
Professional ServiceAd hoc Reviewer for faculty employment/promotion for universities in Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia and Macau

Selected Grants
(Selected grants received in recent 5 years in the capacity of PI/Co-I)

Funding BodyProject Title
Research Institute for Smart Ageing, PolyUQuantification of brain age by functional MRI data: Complexity and functional connectivity
Health Care and Promotion SchemeNew wine in old bottle: The effects of SUDOKU Mind Activation and Revitalizing Training (SMART) Program on cognitive function among people with mild cognitive impairment

Selected Publications
(10 selected papers published in recent 3 years)

Publications
Chan, C. W. H., Law, B. M. H., Ng, M. S. N., Wong, C. C. Y., Wong, C. W. Y., Quinley, M., Orgusyan, J. M., Chow, K. M., & Maye, M. M. Y. (2021). Association of single nucleotide polymorphisms of cytochrome P450 enzymes with experience of vasomotor, vaginal and musculoskeletal symptoms among breast cancer patients: A systematic review. BMC Cancer, 21(1), 570.  
Maggu, A. R., Lau, J. C. Y., Waye, M. M. Y., & Wong, P. C. M. (2021). Combination of absolute pitch and tone language experience enhances lexical tone perception. Sci Rep., 11(1), 1485.
Sabit, H., Tombuloglu, H., Rehman, S., Almandil, N. B., Cevik, E., Abdel-Ghany, S., Rashwan, S., Abasiyanik, M.,Waye, M. (2021). Gut microbiota metabolites in autistic children: An epigenetic perspective. Heliyon, 7(1), e06105.
Cheung, D. W. S., Koon, J. C. M., Wong, P. H., Yau, K. C., Wat, E. C. L., Chan, J. Y. W., Lau, V. K. M., Ko, E. C. H., Waye, M. M Y., & Fung, K. P. (2021). Combination of atorvastatin or hydrochlorothiazide/amlodipine with Salvia miltiorrhiza (Danshen) and Pueraria lobata (Gegen) for atherosclerosis, hyperlipidaemia, and hypertension: A preclinical in vivo study (abridged secondary publication). Hong Kong Medical Journal, 27 Suppl 2(3), 18–22.
Chan, C. W. H., Law, B. M. H., So, W. K. W., Chow, K. M., & Waye, M. M. Y. (2020). Pharmacogenomics of breast cancer: highlighting CYP2D6 and tamoxifen. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol, 146(6), 1395–1404.
Chan, H. C., Lau, Y. T., Ding, Q., Li, C. K., Wong, C. M., Shaw, P. C., Waye, M. M. Y., & Tsang, S. Y. (2020). Pinx1t, a novel pinx1 transcript variant, positively regulates cardiogenesis of embryonic stem cells. J Am Heart Assoc, 9(6), e010240.
Rao, S., Shi, M., Han, X., Lam, M. H. B., Chien, W. T., Zhou, K. , Liu, G., Wing, Y. K., So, H. C., & Waye, M. M. Y. (2020). Genome-wide copy number variation-, validation- and screening study implicates a new copy number polymorphism associated with suicide attempts in major depressive disorder. Gene, 755, 144901.
Chan, C. W. H., Law, B. M. H., Waye,  M. M Y., Chan, J. Y. W., So, W. K. W., & Chow, K. M. (2019). Trimethylamine-N-oxide as one hypothetical link for the relationship between intestinal microbiota and cancer – Where we are and where shall we go? J Cancer, 10(23), 5874–5882.
Rao, S., Han, X., Shi, M., Siu, C. O., Waye, M. M. Y., Liu, G., & Wing, Y. K. (2019). Associations of the serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) with bipolar disorder and treatment response: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, 89, 214–226.
Liang, W. C., Wong, C. W., Liang, P. P., Shi, M., Cao, Y., Rao, S. T., Tsui, S. K. W., Waye, M. M. Y., Zhang, Q., Fu, W. M., & Zhang, J. F. (2019). Translation of the circular RNA circβ-catenin promotes liver cancer cell growth through activation of the Wnt pathway. Genome Biol., 20(1), 84.

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