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CUHK Establishes Asia’s First Microbiota Transplantation and Research Centre

9 August 2018

(From left) Professor Paul Kay Sheung CHAN, Chairman of the Department of Microbiology; Professor Siew Chien NG, Professor of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics; and Professor Francis KL CHAN, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Choh-Ming Li Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics at CUHK

(From left) Professor Paul Kay Sheung CHAN, from Department of Microbiology; Professor Siew Chien NG, from Department of Medicine and Therapeutics; and Professor Francis KL CHAN, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Choh-Ming Li Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics at CUHK

Abstract

Building upon our success using microbiota transplantations to treat certain life-threatening conditions, CUHK established Asia’s first and Hong Kong’s only microbiota transplantation and research Centre. Tasked with investigating the role of gut microbiota in human health and developing novel strategies for disease prevention and intervention, the centre is already hosting several exciting research projects on microbiota transplantation.

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