Professor Jun YU, Member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics and Assistant Dean (Mainland Affairs) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Medicine, has been awarded funding from the Research Grants Council under the Theme-based Research Scheme (TRS) 2026/27.
Led by Professor Yu, the project titled “Microbiota in Gastrointestinal Cancers: Mechanistic Investigation and Clinical Applications” secured HK$55.69 million under the TRS. The project is a multidisciplinary project bridging basic and translational research in Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers, aiming to deepen the understanding of gut microbiota in GI cancer pathogenesis and translate the new knowledge into microbiota-based prognostic (predicting disease progression, risk, and overall survival in patients) and therapeutic tools for GI cancers.
