16/05/2013

Prof. Jun YU, Professor, and Mr. Jiayun SHEN, PhD student, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, CUHK receive their award certificates from Mrs. Cherry TSE LING Kit-ching.

Prof. Jun Yu - First-Class award of the 2012 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Science and Technology)

Award Presentation Ceremony of MOE Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards 2012 First-class award in technology advancement

Prof. Joseph J.Y. Sung, Vice-Chancellor and Mok Hing Yiu Professor of Medicine;Prof. Henry L.K. Chan, Professor, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, and Director, Institute of Digestive Disease; Prof. Jun Yu and Prof. Vincent W.S. Wong, Professors, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics.

About the Project: Investigation and Application of Pathogenesis and Intervention for Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

The research was led by Prof. Jun Yu, Prof. Vincent W.S. Wong, Prof. Henry L.K. Chan and Prof. Joseph J.Y. Sung, with collaboration of 302 Military Hospital of China. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disease. It includes a wide disease spectrum from non-alcoholic fatty liver to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which can further develop to liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. During the past 15 years, the Institute of Digestive Diseaseat CUHK and 302 Military Hospital of China jointly conducted the integrative and in-depth research on this disease. Researches have been focused on the natural history of human NAFLD, molecular mechanism of NAFLD pathogenesis, and the evaluation and intervention of disease progression, which have led to an important basic and clinical significance. The researchers are also the first to report the relationship of NASH to colorectal cancer. Findings of this research have been included in 5 practice guidelines of NAFLD; a total of 74 research articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals with citation rate over 500 times.

[Original source: Press Release on 16 May 2013, CUHK Communication and Public Relations Office Website http://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press_detail.php?id=1557]