Professor Lap-Chee Tsui is a famous geneticist and presently the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. Prior to taking up his present appointment in September 2002, Professor Tsui was Geneticist-in-Chief at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and Head of the Genetics and Genomic Biology Program of its Research Institute. He was also the holder of the H.E. Sellers Chair in Cystic Fibrosis and University Professor at the University of Toronto.

He received international acclaim in 1989 when he identified the defective gene (viz. Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Regulator (CFTR)) that causes cystic fibrosis, which is a major breakthrough in human genetics.

Professor Tsui has published over 350 scientific articles and received numerous awards, including: Distinguished Scientist of the Medical Research Council of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society of London, Member of Academia Sinica, Honorary Fellow of World Innovation Foundation, and Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. He also received the Order of Canada (Officer) and Order of Ontario.