Professor Joseph J Y Sung
Distinguished University Professor
Senior Vice President (Health & Life Sciences)
Dean, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Professor Sung received his medical degree (MBBS) from The University of Hong Kong, and conferred PhD in biomedical sciences by the University of Calgary and MD by The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He holds fellowships from the Royal Colleges of Physicians of Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, and Australia, the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Gastroenterological Association, the Hong Kong College of Physicians, the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine and Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong (ASHK). He is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering of the People's Republic of China and Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences.
He served as the Vice-Chancellor and President of the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 2010-2017 and the Chair of Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) in 2016-17.
He has published over 1000 full scientific articles in leading medical and scientific journals. He was listed as “Highly Cited Researchers”, released by the Clarivate Analytics, for the years 2018, 2019 and 2020. He has edited and authored around 30 books, as well as many chapters in major textbooks including the Oxford Textbook of Medicine (5th Ed.), Sleisenger & Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease (7th &8th Ed) and Yamada’s Textbook of Gastroenterology (4th Ed).

Professor Sung is currently Distinguished University Professor, Senior Vice President (Health & Life Sciences) and Dean, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is also Emeritus Professor in Medicine of CUHK.

沈祖尧，1959年10月22日生，胃肠病学专家，祖籍浙江宁波，现居中国香港，中国工程院院士，欧亚科学院院士，香港科学院创院院士，香港中文大学莫庆尧医学讲座教授。

沈祖尧于1983年获得香港大学内外全科医学士学位；1992年获得加拿大卡尔加里大学生命科学博士学位；1997年获得香港中文大学医学博士学位；2003年在非典一疫中，沈祖尧带领其医疗队伍在前线与疫症对抗，展开了一系列SARS冠状病毒临床及流行病学的研究，被《时代周刊》列为当年的“亚洲英雄”；2010年出任香港中文大学校长；2011年当选中国工程院院士；2012年当选欧亚科学院院士；2013年获颁世界杰出华人奖；2015年当选香港科学院创院院士。

2021年，沈祖尧凭借《非酒精性脂肪性肝病及相关肝癌自然史、发病机制、诊断和防治研究》获得2020年度国家自然科学奖二等奖。