Siew Chien Ng - Biography#

Professor Siew Ng is Croucher Professor in Medical Sciences and Associate Dean (Research) of Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Prof Ng is globally renowned as a pioneer, innovator, and leader in inflammatory bowel disease and microbiome medicine. She is also Director of Microbiota I-Center (MagIC) and co-founder of two biotechnology companies that develop first-in-class microbiome diagnostics and therapeutics. She received her Doctor of Medicine degrees from St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy from Imperial College London. Prof. Ng discovered novel microbial signatures for early diagnosis of colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and neurodevelopmental disorders in children. She also led 30 countries and 100 centers in Asia-Pacific to study IBD epidemiology and pathogenesis.

Prof. Ng has published over 420 papers in leading journals including Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine and Lancet. She was elected Foreign Member of Academia Europaea, was the first female clinician-scientist awarded New Cornerstone Investigator in Chinese Mainland and received the Bank of China Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Prize. She was named Highly-cited researchers by Clarivate for six consecutive years since 2020. Prof. Ng was awarded Joanna and David Sachar International Award and Visiting Professorship (Mount Sinai, New York) and Sir Francis Avery Jones Award and Visiting Professorship (St Mark’s Hospital, London) in 2019, as well as Cleveland Clinic IBD Global Visiting Professorship in 2021.