Professor Mai Har Sham has been the Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research) and Choh-Ming Li Professor of Biomedical Sciences at CUHK since 2020. Prof. Sham oversees the strategic development of research and innovation, entrepreneurship, knowledge transfer and research impact at CUHK. She provides leadership to research support services for technology transfer, intellectual property management, start-ups and commercialization platforms to translate research and knowledge into societal impact. Prof. Sham is dedicated to promoting research integrity and responsible conduct of research, including data management and the practice of open science. She is a Governing Board member of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation (WCRIF) and was the Co-Chair for the 6th World Conference on Research Integrity in 2019. Prof. Sham obtained her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge, U.K. Before joining CUHK, she was the Associate Vice-President (Research), Head of the Department of Biochemistry, Assistant Dean (Research), Director of the Centre for Reproduction Development and Growth in the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of mammalian development and human congenital disorders, and she is currently the President of the Hong Kong Society for Developmental Biology.