Jin Chai

Biography

Jin Chai is a professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. He is the Director of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) Medical Research Center and Cholestatic Liver Diseases (CLD) Center, and the director of Department of Gastroenterology at the First Affiliated Hospital (Southwest Hospital) of Third Military Medical University (Army Medical University) in Chongqing, China. He obtained 8 national grants including the National Science Foundation of China for Outstanding Youth (2019) and for Distinguished Young Scholars (2023). He has published more than 40 original articles in Science Translational Medicine, Nature Communications, Gastroenterology, and Hepatology journals. He also serves as an editorial board member for multiple journals such as BMC Medicine. His current studies focus on both basic and clinical understanding of chronic liver diseases and intestinal dysfunctions, including MASLD, CLD and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).