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Kwong-Sak Leung is affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong in China and has an extensive publication record primarily in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Oncology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cancer Research, and Epidemiology.

Leung's recent publications cover a range of topics, with specific focus on cancer therapies, molecular pathways, and health impacts related to air quality. Notable papers include:

  • The impact of particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5) on atherosclerosis in modernizing China: a report from the CATHAY study (2020, International Journal of Epidemiology)
  • Discovery of a New CDK4/6 and PI3K/AKT Multiple Kinase Inhibitor Aminoquinol for the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (2021, Frontiers in Pharmacology)
  • Improving bulk RNA-seq classification by transferring gene signature from single cells in acute myeloid leukemia (2022, Briefings in Bioinformatics)
  • A long non-coding RNA signature for diagnostic prediction of sepsis upon ICU admission (2020, Clinical and Translational Medicine)
  • A Robust and Generalizable Immune-Related Signature for Sepsis Diagnostics (2021, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics)

The scientist has frequently published in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Research Square, Frontiers in Pharmacology, International Journal of Epidemiology, and Briefings in Bioinformatics.

Main research topics addressed in their work include:

  • Advanced Breast Cancer Therapies
  • Cancer-related Molecular Pathways
  • Cancer-related Molecular Mechanisms Research
  • Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics
  • Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment

Leung frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Lixin Cheng, Xubin Zheng, Man-Hon Wong, Zhong-Kun Xia, and Jian-Ge Qiu, with collaboration counts ranging from four to ten publications.

Best Publications

  • A Survey of Crowdsourcing Systems

    Man-Ching Yuen;Irwin King;Kwong-Sak Leung

  • A Survey of Wireless Sensor Network Based Air Pollution Monitoring Systems

    Wei Ying Yi;Kin Ming Lo;Terrence Mak;Kwong Sak Leung

  • Data Mining Using Grammar-Based Genetic Programming and Applications

    Man Leung Wong;Kwong Sak Leung

  • Improving AutoDock Vina Using Random Forest: The Growing Accuracy of Binding Affinity Prediction by the Effective Exploitation of Larger Data Sets.

    Hongjian Li;Kwong-Sak Leung;Man-Hon Wong;Pedro J. Ballester

  • Fuzzy concepts in expert systems

    K.S. Leung;W. Lam

  • Convergence analysis of cellular neural networks with unbounded delay

    Zhang Yi;Pheng Ann Heng;Kwong Sak Leung

  • An expanding self-organizing neural network for the traveling salesman problem

    Kwong-Sak Leung;Hui-Dong Jin;Zong-Ben Xu

  • Sparse logistic regression with a L1/2 penalty for gene selection in cancer classification.

    Yong Liang;Cheng Liu;Xin-Ze Luan;Kwong-Sak Leung

  • Genetic Algorithm with adaptive elitist-population strategies for multimodal function optimization

    Yong Liang;Kwong-Sak Leung

  • An efficient data mining method for learning Bayesian networks using an evolutionary algorithm-based hybrid approach

    Man Leung Wong;Kwong Sak Leung

  • Using evolutionary programming and minimum description length principle for data mining of Bayesian networks

    Man Leung Wong;Wai Lam;Kwong Sak Leung

  • Improving prediction of phenotypic drug response on cancer cell lines using deep convolutional network

    Pengfei Liu;Hongjian Li;Shuai Li;Kwong-Sak Leung

  • A genetic algorithm for determining nonadditive set functions in information fusion

    Zhenyuan Wang;Kwong-sak Leung;Jia Wang

  • idock: A multithreaded virtual screening tool for flexible ligand docking

    Hongjian Li;Kwong-Sak Leung;Man-Hon Wong

  • Classification by nonlinear integral projections

    Kebin Xu;Zhenyuan Wang;P.-A. Heng;Kwong-Sak Leung

  • istar: a web platform for large-scale protein-ligand docking.

    Hongjian Li;Kwong-Sak Leung;Pedro J. Ballester;Man-Hon Wong

  • An efficient self-organizing map designed by genetic algorithms for the traveling salesman problem

    Hui-Dong Jin;Kwong-Sak Leung;Man-Leung Wong;Z.-B. Xu

  • Task recommendation in crowdsourcing systems

    Man-Ching Yuen;Irwin King;Kwong-Sak Leung

  • Substituting random forest for multiple linear regression improves binding affinity prediction of scoring functions: Cyscore as a case study

    Hongjian Li;Kwong-Sak Leung;Man Hon Wong;Pedro J. Ballester;Pedro J. Ballester

  • Normalization Methods for the Analysis of Unbalanced Transcriptome Data: A Review.

    Xueyan Liu;Nan Li;Sheng Liu;Jun Wang

  • Task Matching in Crowdsourcing

    Man-Ching Yuen;Irwin King;Kwong-Sak Leung

Frequent Co-Authors

Yee Leung
Yee Leung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Zongben Xu
Zongben Xu Xi'an Jiaotong University
Pheng-Ann Heng
Pheng-Ann Heng Chinese University of Hong Kong
Stephen Kwok-Wing Tsui
Stephen Kwok-Wing Tsui Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hsiang-Fu Kung
Hsiang-Fu Kung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Irwin King
Irwin King Chinese University of Hong Kong
Wai Lam
Wai Lam Chinese University of Hong Kong
Qin Lu
Qin Lu Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Ge Zhang
Ge Zhang Hong Kong Baptist University
Gang Li
Gang Li Chinese University of Hong Kong

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