Gerald Chik
Gerald Chik
Graduate student (2019-)
Gerald received his BSc degree in Chemistry from The University of Hong Kong with an early research focus on transition-metal catalysis. He is now reading for a DPhil in Chemical Biology and studying chemical modification of nucleotides and relevant applications on CRISPR-mediated genome editing.
His current research work highlights chemical conjugation and structural modification on CRISPR gRNA which effect various functions, such as luminescence and cell-targeted delivery, with simple and high-yielding chemistry. Along with ongoing research on Cas9 modification and enhanced functionality of CRISPR, his work aims to unravel the potential of synthetic chemistry on modifying gRNA, which is amenable to precise modifications and easily up-scaled, for in vivo applications.