Jun Yu#


Jun Yu
Membership Number:6568
Membership type:FOREIGN
Section:CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE
Affiliated section(s):BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Elected:2023
Main Country of Residence:CHINA
Homepage(s):https://www.idd.cuhk.edu.hk/home/our-director-prof-jun-yu/
ORCID:0000-0001-5008-2153




Present and Previous Positions
  • 2021,01 - present Director, State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease and Institute of Digestive Disease, CUHK, Hong Kong SAR
  • 2020,08 - present Choh-Ming Li Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics, CUHK, Hong Kong SAR
  • 2019,08- present Assistant Dean, Faculty of Medicine, CUHK, Hong Kong SAR
  • 2017,08 - present Chair Professor (A3), Dept of Medicine and Therapeutics, CUHK, Hong Kong SAR
  • 2011,04 - 2017,07 Professor (A1-A2), Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, CUHK, Hong Kong SAR
  • 2005,08 - 2011,03 Research Assistant Professor to Associate Professor, Dept of Medicine and Therapeutics, CUHK, Hong Kong SAR
  • 2003,01 - 2005,06 Senior Research Officer, the University of Sydney, Australia
  • 1999,08 - 2002,12 Post-doctoral fellow, Dept of Medicine and Therapeutics, CUHK, Hong Kong SAR
  • 1998,02 - 1999,07 Post-doctoral fellow, Dept of Medicine, Dresden Univ. of Tech, Germany
  • 1994,07 - 1998,01 Gastroenterologist, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Beijing University, China

Fields of Scholarship
  • Biomarkers for early detection and treatment of GI cancer.
  • Genomic and epigenomic alterations in gastrointestinal (GI) cancer;
  • Gut microbiome, bacteria/host interaction during cancer development;
  • Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and liver cancer in relation to the mechanisms and therapeutic targets;

Honours and Awards
  • 2022 Best Female Scientist in China
  • 2022 Guanghua Engineering Science & Technology Prize, China
  • 2022 GUT Top Author
  • 2022 Top Basic Scientist in Global Gut Microbiome Research-Enthusiasm Gut Daily
  • 2022 ExpertScape Named World Expert in Gastrointestinal disease Top 0.038%
  • 2022 ExpertScape Named World Expert in Microbiota Top 0.044%
  • 2022 Global Scholar, 42nd Top Scientists in the field of Biology (China)
  • 2022 Global Scholar, 48th Top Scientists in the field of Medicine (China)
  • 2021 The National Natural Science Award (for research on fatty liver and associated liver cancer);
  • 2021 The 7th Chinese Medical Women Association (CMWA) Wuzhou Women Science & Technology Award – Research
  • 2019 Top 10 People in Global Intestinal Bacteria Study-Enthusiasm Daily
  • 2018 Science and Technology Progress Awards of He Liang and He Li Fund
  • 2017 American Gastroenterology Association (AGA) Council Oncology Research Mentor Award
  • 2017 The WuXi PharmaTech Life Science and Chemistry Award
  • 2016 The National Natural Science Award (for research on colorectal cancer)
  • 2016 The National Scientific and Technological Progress Award (Innovation Team)
  • 2016 Croucher Senior Research Fellowship Hong Kong
  • 2012 The National Science and Technology Progress Award
  • 2010, 2012 and 2014 Three First-class of Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Natural science and Scientific & Technological Progress)
  • 2009, 2019 and 2022 Research excellence award CUHK

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