Dr Sunny Wong is a gastroenterologist and a clinical scientist in Hong Kong. He obtained his medical qualification in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and his doctorate degree in University of Oxford on human genetics. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Royal College of Pathologists, and the Hong Kong College of Physicians. He has won a number of awards including the Human Genome Organization Travel Award, the Croucher Foundation Award, and the Hong Kong College of Physicians Young Investigator Awards. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles including papers in Nature Genetics, Gastroenterology and Gut. His research interest is to understand the host-microbe relationship in the gut, and to explore novel biomarkers and therapeutic agents for digestive diseases.