Lecture Topic: Metabolomics and Precision Medicine
Date: April 18, 2024 (Thursday) 9:00-10:30
Location: Multipurpose Hall, Wang Changlai Building, Health Science Center
Speaker: Jia Wei
Personal Profile: Jia Wei is a tenured professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy at the University of Hong Kong. In 2023, he was elected as a fellow of the Physiology and Neuroscience Division of the European Academy of Sciences (Academia Europaea). In recent years, he has been consecutively listed as a "Highly Cited Chinese Researcher" by Elsevier and in the "World's Top 2% Scientists" list by Stanford University. Professor Jia has been engaged in metabolomics and translational medicine research for over twenty years, focusing on cancer and metabolic diseases (including obesity, diabetes, fatty liver disease, etc.), with a specific emphasis on the metabolic mechanisms of gut microbiota and the development of therapeutic drugs for metabolic diseases. Since 2003, Professor Jia has established an internationally leading mass spectrometry-based medical metabolomics technology analysis platform, undertaking multiple studies including NIH-funded research on gut microbiota and liver diseases. He previously served as the chief scientist for the Ministry of Science and Technology's major scientific research project 973 (Protein Major Scientific Program Project in 2007 - Protein Function and Metabolomics Research in Metabolic Diseases). His research findings have been published in academic journals such as Science, Science Translational Medicine, Cancer Cell, Cell Metabolism, Blood, PNAS, Nature Review Drug Discovery, with over 400 scientific papers published in international academic journals to date, along with 6 monographs, over 30 patent applications, and a total citation rate exceeding 39,300 times (H index = 95, Google Scholar database). In 2013, his research on the interaction between melamine in infant formula and children's gut bacteria causing kidney toxicity was selected as one of the top ten global technological breakthroughs by Science magazine.
