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
