You are invited to the upcoming Research Grand Rounds on "Research Grand Rounds: The Role of Human Gut Microbiome in Advancing Human Health: Early Detection of HCC in Chronic Liver Disease".
About the Event
There is a worldwide increase in the prevalence of metabolic liver disease. The biology and clinical trajectories of metabolic liver diseases and cancer remain unclear but emerging data have shown the human gut microbiome to play a crucial role in maintaining human health.
Join our speakers Prof Pierce Chow and Assoc Prof Jeremy Lim, as they as they discuss the preliminary findings of the ELEGANCE study which aims to identify biomarkers to diagnose hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) at an early stage and the next steps moving forward.
About the Speakers
Prof Pierce Chow Kah Hoe is a Professor and Program Director of Duke-NUS Medical School. He is also a Senior Consultant, Department of Hepato-pancreato-biliary and Transplant Surgery, Division of Surgery and Surgical Oncology, at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS). He led the multi-disciplinary NMRC Translational and Clinical Research (TCR) National Flagship Program in Liver Cancer since 2016 which has been successfully renewed in 2022 with the NMRC OF-LCG grant. He was also awarded an A*STAR IAF-ICP grant in collaboration with industry, to conduct a nation-wide 2000-patient cohort study (ELEGANCE) to develop diagnostics for early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in 2020 and initiated a multi-national, investigator-initiated Phase II randomised clinical trial (STRATUM) in 2021.
Assoc Prof Jeremy Lim Fung Yen is a CEO and Co-Founder of Asian Microbiome Library (AMiLi). He is also the Director of Global Health in the National University of Singapore's Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. He serves on the boards of various for-profit and not-for-profit organizations in different aspects of healthcare including migrant worker health, end of life care and digital health interventions.
About the Facilitator
Prof Sven Pettersson is the Director of ASEAN Microbiome Nutrition Centre (AMNC) at SingHealth. He is also a Principal Investigator in National Neuroscience Institute (NNI), SingHealth and an Adjunct Professor in National University of Singapore (NUS). He is an internationally highly respected scientist who has received numerous awards and known for his work on gut microbe – host interactions. The ASEAN Microbiome Nutrition Centre (AMNC) was formed in 2022 with supported from NNI, Singapore and Sunway University, Malaysia and UK Dementia group.
Registration Details
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