Introduction

Prof. Kwok-Fai So is currently the director of GHM Institute of CNS Regeneration. He became the member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1999. He is also chair professor in Ophthalmology Department, and Jessie Ho Professor in Neuroscience, in the University of Hong Kong. He is the co-director of the State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at HKU, and co-chairman of the board of director of the China Spinal Cord Injury Network. He received Ph.D. degree from MIT in 1977, and is one of the pioneers in the field of axonal regeneration in visual system. He is the first one to show long-distance regeneration of retinal ganglion cell axons in adult mammalians by peripheral nerve graft. He is currently using both pharmaceutical and non-drug approaches to promote central nervous regeneration, and to improve psychiatric disorders. His research groups have identified neuroprotective and regenerative factors including exercise, small molecules from Chinese herbs, physical therapy and novel bio-materials. He has authored more than 300 original research articles, which have been cited for more than 6500 times. He won the National Natural Science Award of China in 1995, and has been elected as US National Academy of Invention Fellow in 2015.