2024-08-302024-08-30https://dspace.usj.edu.mo/handle/123456789/5801Dr. Shum graduated from the Department of Chemistry of Hong Kong Baptist University with first-class honor. Her PhD was from Pharmacology Dept at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She went to Pharmacology Physiology Dept of Strathclyde Uni (UK) for a visiting-postdoctoral training, followed by a postdoc-training in Professor Patrick Wong’s lab at Physiology Dept of CUHK. Later, she was delighted to join the lab of Professor Sylvie Breton at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) affiliated to Harvard Medical School (HMS). During the postdoc-training at MGH, Shum received the Medical Discovery Award and the Martin Award offered from MGH-ECOR-HMS. Where she was promoted to Instructor. She returned to China and joined the School of Life Sciences and Technology of ShanghaiTech University as an independent principal investigator and a doctoral supervisor. She also received the Shanghai Dawn Scholar Award and was selected as a distinguished researcher during the joint-effort project of the Center for Excellence in Molecular and Cell Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She later joined USJ. For over 20-years, Dr Shum is devoted herself to the basic scientific research. She focuses on exploring the cellular and molecular mechanisms as well as the clinical translational implications of epithelial cellular function, paternal factors and cellular nutrition in regulating epididymal function and sperm maturation for reproductive health and the health of offspring.