page_title: Lap-Chee Tsui
section_title: Honours and awards
hierarchical_section_title: Lap-Chee Tsui / Honours and awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Bust of Lap-Chee Tsui in the Donnelly CCBR building (University of Toronto).
context_page_description: Lap-Chee Tsui, GBM, OC, OOnt, JP, FRS, FRSC is a Chinese-born Canadian geneticist and served as the 14th Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Hong Kong.
context_section_description: Tsui has received numerous awards and honours for his outstanding work over the years. His honours include the titles of Distinguished Scientist of the Medical Research Council of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society of London, Fellow of Academia Sinica, Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (US), Honorary Fellow of Royal College of Physicians (UK) and Honorary Fellow of World Innovation Foundation.
  In addition to many national and international prizes, including the Killam Prize by the Canada Council for the Arts, Gairdner International Award, Elliott Cresson Medal of Franklin Institute, and Mead Johnson Award, he was awarded honorary doctoral degrees by the University of Toronto, University of King's College, University of New Brunswick, Chinese University of Hong Kong, St. Francis Xavier University, York University, Tel Aviv University and University of Western Ontario.
  In 1991, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, and in October 2007, he was decorated as Knight of the Légion d'Honneur of France.
  He also received the Order of Ontario and the title of Justice of the Peace (HKSAR) from the Hong Kong SAR Government. In 2012, he was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. He is an inductee into the Etobicoke Hall of Fame.
  In 2006, the fifth floor of the University of Toronto's Donnelly CCBR building was named after Tsui Lap-chee to honour his research work.
caption: Bust of Tsui Lap-Chee in the Donnelly CCBR building (University of Toronto)
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