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Wei Jia#


Michael Huth
Membership Number:6525
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE
Elected:2023
Main Country of Residence:ITALY
Homepage(s):https://research.hkbu.edu.hk/researcher/wei-jia
ORCID:0000-0002-3739-8994





Present and Previous Positions
  • 2019, 10 - present Cheung On Tak Endowed Chair Professor, Associate Dean, School of Chinese Medicine, Director, Hong Kong Phenome Research Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
  • Mar 2013 - Sept 2019 (Tenured, full) Professor, Associate Director, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Hawaii, USA
  • Oct 2012 - present Adjunct Professor, Director, Center for Translational Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, P.R. China
  • Aug 2008 - Feb 2013 (Tenured, full) Professor, School of Health and Human Sciences, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
  • Apr 2005 - present Adjunct Professor, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, P.R. China
  • Jan 2003 - July 2008 Professor, Vice Dean, School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P.R. China
  • May 2001 - Dec 2002 Professor, Executive Vice Dean, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tianjin University, Tianjin, P. R. China
  • Oct 1998 - May 2005 CEO/Chairman of the Board, Walfen (Tianjin) Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd., Tianjin, P. R. China
  • Jul 1996 - Oct 1998 Radiopharmaceutical Scientist, Director, Tech Development, BEST Medical International, Virginia, USA
  • Jun 1992 - Jun 1996 Senior Project Specialist/Research Scientist, University of Missouri Research Reactor Center, Missouri, USA

Fields of Scholarship
  • Molecular pharmacology and drug discovery
  • Microbiome, host-gut microbe metabolic interactions
  • Metabolomics

Honours and Awards
  • 2021 The "Benchmarking Scientist Award" in Translational Gut Microbiota Research, 2021 China Gut Conference.
  • 2019 Cheung On Tak Endowed Chair in Chinese Medicine.
  • 2019 Founding Member and Vice Chairman of the Chinese Society of Metabolomics.
  • 2019 Founding Member and Standing Director of the Analytical Pharmacology Professional Committee of the Chinese Pharmacological Society.
  • 2016 Recipient, Shanghai Natural Science Award.
  • 2013 Research in gut microbiome and nephrotoxicity was selected as part of the "Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2013" by SCIENCE.
  • 2012 Founding Member of the Metabolomics Association of North America.
  • 2007 Recipient, the Leading Scientist Award, Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, China.
  • 2005 Recipient, Aurora Scholar, Shanghai Education Commission, China.
  • 2004 Recipient, New Century Talents Award, P. R. China Ministry of Education, (~100 scholars chosen nationwide per year).

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