Dr. Yu Jun
Research Laboratory of Institute of Digestive Disease
Gene
Greece
Biography
Jun YU is a professor in Department of Medicine and Therapeutics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She completed her MD and PhD in China and she received her clinical gastroenterology training in the Second Affiliated Hospital at Beijing University in 1994-1998, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Gastroenterology at the University of Dresden, Germany, University of Magdeburg, Germany and CUHK, Hong Kong, respectively in 1998-2002. She worked as a Senior Research Officer at University of Sydney in 2003-2005. She has been a CUHK faculty member since 2005. `
Research Interest
-Identification of the epigenetic and genetic alterations in relation to the mechanisms of pathogenesis and diagnostic biomarker of gastrointestinal cancers (gastric, colon and liver) -Non-alcohol steatohepatitis (NASH) in relation to the mechanisms of development of experimental steatohepatitis, and treatment response
