Cell & Bioscience

Editor Profile

Dr Yun-Fai Chris Lau, Editor-in-Chief

Dr Lau is a Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and a Research Career Scientist of the San Francisco VA Health Care System. After serving as a founding Associate Editor of the Editorial Board, he has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of Cell & Bioscience, effective January 1, 2020. Dr Lau received his B.A. in Chemistry from the Harpur College at the Binghamton University in 1973, and his M.Sc. in 1976 and Ph.D. in 1979 in Cell Biology from the M.D. Anderson-UT Health Graduate School of Biomedical Science at Houston, Texas. He received additional postdoctoral training under an AP Giannini fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco from 1979-84 and was involved in the early technology development in whole genome recombinant DNA library constructions. In 1984, he became a faculty member of the Department of Medicine.  Dr Lau is interested in understanding the functions of genes on the male-specific Y chromosome and their X-homologues in sex determination and sex differences in human diseases and cancers, using molecular genetics, genomics and transgenic strategies. Dr Lau has mentored numerous undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty members throughout his academic career.  He has published over 140 research articles, scientific reviews and book chapters and edited two books in his fields.