Jun Sun

Jun Sun is a tenured Professor of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is an elected fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) and American Physiological Society (APS). She chairs the AGA Microbiome and Microbial Therapy section. She is an internationally recognized expert on microbiome and vitamin D receptor in inflammation. Dr. Sun has published over 210 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and 6 books on microbiome. She is on the editorial boards of more than 10 peer-reviewed international scientific journals and serves on the study sections for the national and international research foundations. Dr. Sun is a believer of scientific art and artistic science. She enjoys writing her science papers in English and poems in Chinese. Her poetry collection《让时间停留在这一刻》(“Let Time Stay Still at This Moment”) was published in 2018.