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Dr. Siu-wai Leung of the Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences of the University of Macau (UM) has been conducting frontier research into biomedical informatics. Recently he was elected Fellow of the Society of Biology in the United Kingdom, showing international recognition of his achievements in the field. Now he is planning the Edinburgh-Macao Joint Laboratory for Global Health and Bioinformatics with the School of Informatics, the University of Edinburgh.

Dr. Leung is the Executive Editor of Chinese Medicine journal, which was founded by the International Society for Chinese Medicine, sponsored by the Macao Foundation, the first open-access English language journal for publishing articles on Chinese medicine research reviewed by world-class experts and scholars. According to BioMed Central's non-official statistics of international journal impacts, Chinese Medicine is the world’s most influential journal in the field. Dr. Leung is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Automated Experimentation journal, which was founded in collaboration with two other Editors-in-Chief, namely Dave Robertson, Head of the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, and Dietlind Gerloff of the University of California, Santa Cruz, who is also Director of the International Society of Computational Biology.

As part of his biomedical research at UM, Dr. Leung intends to establish joint research collaboration with the informatics schools and departments in the UK, Italy, Spain, and Netherlands, with emphasis on automated experimentation to facilitate the evidence-based translational research between laboratory / bench-side and clinical / bed-side developments.

His main research areas include computational synthesis for experiment design with application in clinical trials and automated e-research methods with application in translational medicine and evidence-based medicine, including systematic reviewing and meta-analysis. He also has work experience. He served for years as Acting Head of the Chinese Medicine Informatics Centre at Hong Kong Baptist University and Head of Data Processing at ACNielsen China (at that time ACNielsen was
the world leader in market research).

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