Chair Professor

Professor Ricky Y.K. Man
B.Sc., Ph.D. (Manit)
 

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  Associate Dean (Information Technology & Planning), Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong

Professor Ricky Y.K. Man
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• President of Hong Kong Pharmacological Society
• Director of the Bio-pharmaceutical Development Centre, the University of Hong Kong
• Council Member of the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Medicine, the University of Hong Kong
• Chairman of the Committee on Research and Conference Grants, the University of Hong Kong
• Member of the University Research Committee, the University of Hong Kong
• Member of the Chinese Medicine Council of Hong Kong SAR
• Member of the Canadian Pharmacological Society
• Member of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

• Non-genomic effects of gonadal sex hormones in the vascular system: clinical implications and mechanism of actions
• Vascular and hormonal profiles, as well as the therapeutic potentials, of phytoestrogens
• Cardiovascular pharmacology of Chinese medicine, in particular the modulatory actions on vascular reactivity
• Role of lipid and its mediators in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disorders
• Platelet-activating factor: its cardiovascular effects and receptor classification

Selected Publications :

• Lee M.Y.K. and Man R.Y.K. (2003). The phytoestrogens genistein enhances endothelium-dependent relaxation in the porcine coronary artery. Eur. J. Pharmacol. 481: 227-232.
   
• Zhang H., Yu C., Jia J.Y., Leung S.W.S., Siow Y.L., Man R.Y.K. and Zhu D.Y. (2002). Contents of four active components in different commercial crude drugs and preparations of danshen (Salvia miltiorrhiza). Acta Pharmacol. Sin. 23: 1163-1168.
   
• Man R.Y.K., Ting L.K., Fan S., Lau M.M., Siow Y.L., Chung Y.H. and O K. (2001). Effect of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy on lipoprotein and homocysteine levels in Chinese women. Mol. Cell. Biochem. 225: 129-134.
   
• Teoh H. and Man R.Y.K. (2000). Enhanced relaxation of porcine coronary arteries after acute exposure to a physiological level of 17beta-estradiol involves non-genomic mechanisms and the cyclic AMP cascade. Br J Pharmacol. 129: 1739-1747.
   
• Teoh H., Quan A., Leung S.W.S. and Man R.Y.K. (2000). Differential effects of 17beta-estradiol and testosterone on the contractile responses of porcine coronary arteries. Br J Pharmacol. 129: 1301-1308.
   
• Teoh H., Leung S.W.S. and Man R.Y.K. (1999). Short-term exposure to physiological levels of 17-estradiol enhances endothelium-independent relaxation in porcine coronary artery. Cardiovasc. Res. 42: 224-231.
   
• Huang M., Li J., Teoh H. and Man R.Y.K. (1999). Low concentrations of 17 Beta-estradiol reduce oxidative modification of low-density lipoprotein in the presence of vitamin C and vitamin E. Free Radical Biol. Med. 27: 439-441.
   
• Li J., Huang M., Teoh H. and Man R.Y.K. (1999). Panax quinquefolium saponin protects low density lipoproteins from oxidation. Life Sci. 64:53-64
   
• Chen L., Liang B., Froese D.E., Liu S., Wong J.T., Tran K., Hatch G.M., Mymin D., Kroeger E.E., Man R.Y.K. and Choy P.C. (1997). Oxidative modification of low density lipoprotein in normal and hyperlipidemic patients: effect of lysophosphatidylcholine composition on vascular relaxation. J. Lipid Res. 38: 546-553.
   
• Man R.Y.K. and Kinnaird A.A.A. (1995). Similar coronary vascular effects in the rat perfused heart of platelet-activating factor analogues with agonist and antagonist properties. Br. J. Pharmacol. 116: 2359-2364.

Professor Ricky Y.K. Man has been actively participating in the academic activities at the University of Hong Kong, being the member of the Senate (1995-2003), the Court (1995-2003) and the Council (2002-2003) at this institution. He was the Chairman of the Committee on the Use of Live Animals in Teaching and Research (1996-2001). With regard to his research interests, he was the Founding Member and the Deputy Director (1997-2001) of the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Medicine. He also took up the position as the Deputy Director (Basic Research) of the School of Chinese Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (1998-2002). Currently, he is the Visiting Professor at the Peking University. He was the Visiting Professor at different institutions in Mainland China, including the Sun Yat-Sen University (1996-2000), the Norman Bethune University of Medical Sciences (1998-2000) and the Shantou University Medical College (2001).

-Last update on July 2006-