Yonglin Wu

Full-time Clinical Research Assistant / Honorary Clinical Researcher at Department of Ophthalmology, HKU; Grantham Hospital (2024-10 – Present)

Advisor: Prof. Rachel Leung, The University of Hong Kong

Supported preparation of 5 IRB/REC applications and human-subject research governance materials as an HKU/Hospital Authority affiliate, handling sensitive patient-level data under ethics, confidentiality, and data privacy expectations.
Coordinated clinical data cleaning and consolidation across HKU Ophthalmology and Hong Kong Island South, Tai Po, and Kwun Tong datasets, covering approximately 7,000 participants.
Managed data cleaning, validation, and schema alignment for 500,000+ UK Biobank records with Harvard and UCL collaborators, preparing progress updates for study stakeholders.
Conducted regression-based analyses of blood protein data to identify glaucoma-related proteins and ophthalmology risk factors, maintaining reproducible R/Python workflows.
Presented cataract and dementia-risk findings as an APAO poster and AlphaFold3 modelling work related to glaucoma/optic-nerve injury at the SIGMA Ophthalmology Forum.

Undergraduate Researcher at Faculty of Science and School of Biomedical Sciences, HKU (2022-06 – 2024-05)

Advisor: Prof. Mu He, The University of Hong Kong

Conducted biomedical research on motile ciliogenesis and kinase-kinesin protein complexes using wet-lab experiments, AlphaFold-assisted structural analysis, and scientific reporting; final-year thesis graded A.
Practised secondary cell culture, immunoprecipitation, immunoblotting, sub-cloning, experimental documentation, journal-club reporting, and HKU/UofT research-team communication.

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