Research
NG, Siew Chien

Name : NG, Siew Chien 黃秀娟
Title :
Professor
Home Department :  Medicine and Therapeutics
Phone Number : (852) 3505 3996
Fax Number : (852) 2637 3852
Office Address : 9/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building,
Prince of Wales Hospital,
Shatin, Hong Kong
Email : siewchienng@cuhk.edu.hk
Website :
www.mect.cuhk.edu.hk/people/siewng.html
www.cuhkibd.org/

Biography:

Professor Siew Ng is Associate Director for the Center of Gut Microbiota Research and Professor of Medicine at the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her undergraduate education from St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy from Imperial College London. Her research interests focus on microbial screening and microbiome-based precision medicine for diseases including inflammatory bowel disease, infectious disease, obesity, metabolic diseases, childhood allergy and autism. She has published over 200 scientific articles in Nature Communications, Nature Genetics, Lancet and Gastroenterology. She is pioneer of the “100K mother-baby cohort” in the Greater Bay Area of China. She led the first large scale Asia-Pacific epidemiologic IBD study and the Asian Microbiota consortium. She has been awarded Croucher Senior Medical Research Fellowships Award, Sir Francis Avery Jones Visiting Professorship and Award, and Joanna David B. Sachar Professorship. She is Associate Editor of Gut. In 2017, she established Asia’s First Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) & Research Centre and the first longitudinal intestinal microbiota transplantation registry in Asia.
 

Specialised Research Area(s):

Microbial biomarkers, Intestinal microbiota transplantation, Microbial therapeutics

 

Selected Publications:

1. Ng SC, Kamm MA, Yeoh YK, Chan PKS, Zuo T, Tang W, Sood A, Andoh A, Ohmiya N, Zhou Y, Ooi CJ, Mahachai V, Wu CY, Zhang F, Sugano K, Chan FKL. Scientific frontiers in faecal microbiota transplantation: joint document of Asia-Pacific Association of Gastroenterology (APAGE) and Asia-Pacific Society for Digestive Endoscopy (APSDE). Gut. 2019;69(1):83-91. doi:10.1136/gutjnl-2019-319407. ‌

2. Zuo T, Lu XJ, Zhang Y, Cheung CP, Lam S, Zhang F, Tang W, Ching JYL, Zhao R, Chan PKS, Sung JJY, Yu J, Chan FKL, Cao Q, Sheng JQ, Ng SC. Gut mucosal virome alterations in ulcerative colitis. Gut. 2019;68(7):1169-1179. doi:10.1136/gutjnl-2018-318131. ‌

3. Ng SC, Kyaw MH, Suen BY, Tse YK, Wong MCS, Hui AJ, Tak HY, Lau JYW, Sung JJY, Chan FKL. Prospective colonoscopic study to investigate risk of colorectal neoplasms in first-degree relatives of patients with non-advanced adenomas. Gut. 2019;69(2):304-310. doi:10.1136/gutjnl-2018-318117. ‌

4. Lai CY, Sung J, Cheng F, Tang W, Wong SH, Chan PKS, Kamm MA, Sung JJY, Kaplan G, Chan FKL, Ng SC. Systematic review with meta-analysis: review of donor features, procedures and outcomes in 168 clinical studies of faecal microbiota transplantation. Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 2019;49(4):354-363. doi:10.1111/apt.15116. ‌

5. Zuo T, Wong SH, Cheung CP, Lam K, Lui R, Cheung K, Zhang F, Tang W, Ching JYL, Wu JCY, Chan PKS, Sung JJY, Yu J, Chan FKL, Ng SC. Gut fungal dysbiosis correlates with reduced efficacy of fecal microbiota transplantation in Clostridium difficile infection. Nature Communications. 2018;9(1):3663. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06103-6. ‌

6. Zuo T, Kamm MA, Colombel JF, Ng SC. Urbanization and the gut microbiota in health and inflammatory bowel disease. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 2018;15(7):440-452. doi:10.1038/s41575-018-0003-z. ‌

7. Ng SC, Shi HY, Hamidi N, Underwood FE, Tang W, Benchimol EI, Panaccione R, Ghosh S, Wu JCY, Chan FKL, Sung JJY, Kaplan GG. Worldwide incidence and prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease in the 21st century: a systematic review of population-based studies. The Lancet. 2017;390(10114):2769-2778. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(17)32448-0. ‌

8. Zuo T, Wong SH, Lam K, Lui R, Cheung K, Tang W, Ching JYL, Chan PKS, Chan MCW, Wu JCY, Chan FKL, Yu J, Sung JJY, Ng SC. Bacteriophage transfer during faecal microbiota transplantation in Clostridium difficile infection is associated with treatment outcome. Gut. 2017;67(4):634-643. doi:10.1136/gutjnl-2017-313952. ‌

9. Ng SC, Lau JYW, Chan FKL, Suen BY, Tse YK, Hui AJ, Leung-Ki EL, Ching JYL, Chan AWH, Wong MCS, Ng SSM, To KF, Wu JCY, Sung JJY. Risk of Advanced Adenomas in Siblings of Individuals With Advanced Adenomas: A Cross-Sectional Study. Gastroenterology. 2016;150(3):608-616. doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2015.11.003. ‌

10. Ng SC, Zeng Z, Niewiadomski O, Tang W, Bell S, Kamm MA, Hu P, de Silva HJ, Niriella MA, Udara WSAAY, Ong D, Ling KL, Ooi CJ, Hilmi I, Lee Goh K, Ouyang Q, Wang YF, Wu K, Wang X, Pisespongsa P, Manatsathit S, Aniwan S, Limsrivilai J, Gunawan J, Simadibrata M, Abdullah M, Tsang SWC, Lo FH, Hui AJ, Chow CM, Yu HH, Li MF, Ng KK, Ching JYL, Chan V, Wu JCY, Chan FKL, Chen M, Sung JJY. Early Course of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a Population-Based Inception Cohort Study From 8 Countries in Asia and Australia. Gastroenterology. 2016;150(1):86-95.e3. doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2015.09.005. ‌

11. Ng SC, Tang W, Ching JY, Wong M, Chow CM, Hui AJ, Wong TC, Leung VK, Tsang SW, Yu HH, Li MF, Ng KK, Kamm MA, Studd C, Bell S, Leong R, de Silva HJ, Kasturiratne A, Mufeena MNF, Ling KL, Ooi CJ, Tan PS, Ong D, Goh KL, Hilmi I, Pisespongsa P, Manatsathit S, Rerknimitr R, Aniwan S, Wang YF, Ouyang Q, Zeng Z, Zhu Z, Chen MH, Hu PJ, Wu K, Wang X, Simadibrata M, Abdullah M, Wu JC, Sung JJY, Chan FKL. Incidence and Phenotype of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Based on Results From the Asia-Pacific Crohn’s and Colitis Epidemiology Study. Gastroenterology. 2013;145(1):158-165.e2. doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2013.04.007. ‌