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Alex Chun Koon

Alex Chun Koon

Associate Editor
The Chinese University of Hong Kong China Member since 2018

Biography

Alex Chun KOON earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences (conc. Neuroscience) from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, U.S.A, in 2011. During his Ph.D. study, he focused on synaptic and behavioral plasticity in Drosophila. To expand his research horizon towards oncology, he was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Queensland, Australia, to study the mechanisms of medulloblastoma. Currently, he is a Research Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also the Associate Director of the Laboratory of Drosophila Research, with the focus of using Drosophila as a model system for studying neurodegenerative diseases. He published a number of papers and review articles in high impact journals including Cell, Nature Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience etc.

Research Interests

Synaptic Plasticity Neurodegenerative Diseases Neurobiology Developmental Biology

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