Fong-Fong Chu
Professor
The First Affiliated Hospital - HUST, P R China
China
Biography
Fong Fong Chu has her expertise in gastrointestinal diseases especially in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Her team has established a mouse model of IBD which is very-early onset. These mice are deficient in two isoenzymes which reduce hydrogen peroxide named GPx1/2-double knockout (DKO). This model is a better model than chemical-induced colitis models because it is not injury based and mimic closely to human IBD. She has built this model through 20 years of research and has identified new targets for IBD therapy. She joined Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte CA USA (1987). She is currently associated with the Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology and the First Affiliated Hospital and College of Clinical Medicine of Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan, P R China since 2016.
Research Interest
inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)