Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and liver cancer in relation to the mechanisms and therapeutic targets.

Gut microbiome, bacteria/host interaction during cancer development.

Genomic and epigenomic alterations in gastrointestinal (GI) cancer.

She obtained 30 prestigious awards, including Top 10 People in Global Intestinal Bacteria Study-Enthusiasm Daily 2019 List Science and Technology Progress Awards of HLHL Fund 2018 AGA Council Oncology Research Mentor Award 2017 The WuXi PharmaTech Life Science and Chemistry Award 2017 The State Natural Science Award 2016 The State Scientific and Technological Progress Award (Innovation Team) 2016 Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2016 The State Science and Technology Progress Award 2012, etc. She has 59 patents approved (20) and filed (39) in US, Europe and China. She has over 410 peer-reviewed publications (h index=67).

She has been a CUHK faculty member since 2005. Prof Yu obtained her MD and PhD at Tongji Medical University in 1994 and then she embarked on gastrointestinal specialist in the Second Affiliated Hospital at Beijing University, followed by postdoctoral fellowship in Technical University of Dresden and University of Magdeburg, Germany, and worked as a Senior Research Officer at University of Sydney, Australia. She serves as Council Member of American Gastrointestinal Association (AGA) Oncology and Council Member of AGA Microbiome and Microbial Diseases, USA Council Member of Cancer Microbiome Consortium UK Associate Chairman of HK Scientist Association Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professor China Associate Chairman of China Cancer Microbiome Association Deputy Chief Editor of J of Gastrolenterol Hepatol, Associate Editor for Oncogene, Editor for Gut, Scientific Reports etc. Jun Yu is a Professor of Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Assistant Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Director of the Research Laboratory of Institute of Digestive Disease, and Associate Director of State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).

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