[August 2022 issue]

Affiliated to the College, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics and Assistant Dean of CUHK’s Faculty of Medicine Prof. Yu Jun received the 14th Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award from the Chinese Academy of Engineering for her distinguished achievements in and contribution to gastrointestinal cancer studies.

Prof. Yu joined the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics of the CUHK Faculty of Medicine in 2005, and is currently Directors of the Institute of Digestive Disease, the Research Laboratory of the Institute of Digestive Disease and the State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease. Over the years, she has been responsible for new findings regarding gastrointestinal cancers in relation to the genomic and epigenomic molecular mechanisms, and gut microbiota, as well as basic and translational research in cancer biomarkers and cancer therapy.

The Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award has been presented to Chinese engineering science and technology experts, and scientists every two years since 1996 to commend their important contributions and outstanding achievements in the fields of engineering science and technology and engineering management.