- Chair Professor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jun Yu is Choh-Ming Li Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics; Assistant Dean, Faculty of Medicine; Director, State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease; Director, Institute of Digestive Disease; The Chinese university of Hong Kong (CUHK). She is a member of the European Academy of Sciences; member of Hong Kong Academy of Sciences; Member of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; Chief editor of iMetaOmics, Associate Editor of Gut, Molecular Oncology, and Advisory Board of Cancer Cell. Prof. Yu obtained MD and PhD at Tongji Medical University in 1994 and then embarked on gastrointestinal specialist in Beijing University, followed by postdoctoral fellowship in University of Magdeburg, Germany, CUHK and senior research officer at University of Sydney, Australia. She has been a CUHK faculty member since 2005 and a Professor of Department of Medicine and Therapeutics since 2011. Her research interests being gut microbiota and genetic/epigenetic alterations in gastrointestinal cancers and fatty liver d isease. She has published 632 articles (Cell, Cancer cell, Cell Metab, Nat Microbiol, Nat Metab) with over 51,600 citations (h-index 113) and earned over 50 major awards, including two National Natural Science Awards, He Liang He Li Award, Guanghua Engineering Prize, AGA Research Mentor Award USA, Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, and is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher.