Prof. Yuk Lam LO – President, the Hong Kong Bio-Med Innotech Association
Qualified as a chemist, Prof. Yuk Lam Lo started his career as a Junior Scientist at the Cambridge Memorial Hospital in Ontario, Canada and advanced to become the Clinical Chemist. In 1979, he joined Bio-Rad Laboratories Canada (Bio-Rad), a company that specializes in reagents and instruments for use in laboratories and hospitals. His dynamic acumen and diligence soon accredited him to being appointed as National Sales & Marketing Director, in a course of five years. Later he became the President of Bio-Rad Asia Pacific and established the first office for Bio-Rad in Hong Kong. When Prof. Lo was headhunted by PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences and subsequently became the Asia-Pacific Chairman and President of PerkinElmer.
Prof. Lo is currently serving as the Chairman of the Advisory Council for Food Safety of the Food and Health Bureau HKSAR, an Executive Committee Member of the Chinese Manufacturers’ Association of Hong Kong (CMA) and Chairman of the Education Committee of CMA. Prof. Lo is also the Honorary Founding Chairman of Hong Kong Bio-Organization. Professor Lo served as chairman of the HKSAR Committee on Biotechnology. He had been appointed a Director of the Hong Kong Applied R&D Fund Co. Ltd., Chairman of the Biotechnology Committee of the Hong Kong Industry & Technology Development Council, and Chairman of Biotechnology Projects Vetting Committee of the Innovation and Technology Fund, HKSAR.