Siew C. Ng

Professor Siew Ng is Professor at the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Assistant Dean (Development) and Associate Director for the Center for Gut Microbiota Research at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.  She is the Director for the Microbiota I-Center (MagIC). She received her Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree from the University of London and the Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) from Imperial College London.

She is at the forefront of epidemiology, genetics, pathogenesis and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease in Asia-Pacific and globally.  She pioneered the research on the role of gut microbiota in health and disease as well as fecal microbiota transplantation and microbial therapeutics. She also made a number of novel and significant discoveries in the COVID-19 research.

She has published over 300 papers in international journals, including Nature Genetics, Cell Host Microbes, Nature Communications and Lancet. Her research work has won over 30 prestigious awards including the Gold and Silver Medal of International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva 2022, Ministry of Education Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards, Sachar Visiting Professorship, Sir Francis Avery Jones Award and Professorship, Croucher Senior Medical Research Fellowship, and Highly-cited Researchers by Clarivate in 2020 and 2021.