Professor Jade Lee Lee Teng is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). She obtained her Master of Medical Sciences and PhD degrees in Microbiology from the University of Hong Kong. Professor Teng joined the Faculty of Dentistry at HKU in 2023. Prior to her current appointment, she worked in the Department of Microbiology at HKU, where she specialized in infectious disease research. Throughout her career, Professor Teng and her research team have received research awards from HKU and international conferences. She has secured multiple research grants as a principal investigator and has authored over 130 publications in leading peer-reviewed journals. Her significant contributions to medical microbiology have earned her recognition as a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (UK). Since joining the Faculty of Dentistry, her research has focused on developing oral organoid models to investigate disease mechanisms, promote tissue regeneration, and explore novel treatment strategies – aiming to bridge dentistry and medicine through microbiological insights to improve disease diagnosis and therapy.