Assoc Prof Sunny Wong is an Associate Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. Assoc Prof Wong read Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and completed his doctoral studies in genetics at the University of Oxford. He completed his clinical training in gastroenterology in the Prince of Wales Hospital. He is an accomplished clinician-scientist with an expertise in gastrointestinal diseases, genetics, and the microbiome. His main research interest is on the host-microbe interaction in digestive diseases and to explore it to discover novel biomarkers and therapeutics. He has won several awards, including the Asia Pacific Digestive Week Emerging Leaders Lectureship (2021), the Sir David Todd Lectureship (2020) and the Croucher Foundation Award (2014). He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles including papers in Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, Gastroenterology and Gut, and is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.