About Kaichun Wu’s work
Based at Fourth Military Medical University, Kaichun Wu held a Croucher Visitorship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from October 2002 to March 2003.
Biography
Kaichun Wu received his PhD in internal medicine from the Fourth Military Medical University in 1993, and went to the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom for postdoctoral studies in 1997. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and Northwestern University in the United States. Wu's research interest is in basic and clinical research of gastrointestinal diseases, and has made outstanding achievements in gastrointestinal immunology and tumour immunology, especially in the research of gastric cancer chemoprevention, angiogenesis and inflammatory bowel disease.
He discovered that the effect of COX2 in promoting the progression of gastric cancer is related to its pro-angiogenic pro-angiosis. Wu is a member of the Standing Committee and Secretary-General of the Gastroenterology Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, an Executive Director and Chairman of the Foundation Committee of the World Gastroenterological Organization (WGO), and an Executive Director and Chairman of the Award Committee of the Asia-Pacific Society of Gastroenterology.