Dr. Chun Hang Au, HCert(HKU), BSc(CUHK), PhD(CUHK), Reg. MLT(HK) Part I, MB(ASCPⁱ)^CM, FIBMS(UK)

Research Officer, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital (Molecular Pathology Division, Department of Pathology; Medical Physics and Research Department)

Honorary Research Associate, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research interests

1. Molecular pathology of blood and breast/ovarian cancers
2. Next/third-generation sequencing-based diagnostic test development, all the way from clinical specimens to bioinformatics pipeline to clinical reports
3. Microbial genomics (edible mushrooms and food-borne bacterial pathogens)

Professional profiles

• CV (Linkedin)
• Publications (Google Scholar Profile)

Bioinformatics software

• ITDseek - Detect FLT3 internal tandem duplication (ITD) from amplicon NGS alignments (Au et al, 2016 Diagnostic Pathology)
• HomopolymerQZ - Call variants in homopolymer loci from 454 pyrosequencing data (Kwong et al, 2016 Journal of Molecular Diagnostics)
• INDELseek - Detect complex indels from NGS alignments (Au et al, 2017 BMC Genomics)
• BAMClipper - Soft-clip amplicon primer sequence from NGS alignments (Au et al, 2017 Scientific Reports)