Vera S.F Chan, currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine LKS Faculty of Medicine in HKU, is a cellular immunologist with over 20 years of research experience in academic institutes worldwide, including Oxford of University, Imperial College London and University of Toronto. Her main research interest is immunodysregulation in systemic lupus erythematosus. Her laboratory is currently investigating SLE pathogenesis through various approaches: cellular and mechanistic studies in inflammasome and neutrophil dysregulation, multi-omics study to dissect SLE disease heterogeneity, and derivation of patient-derived reprogrammed stem cells for SLE disease modelling.