These days, winning list of scholarship has been released from Ministry of Education, and we’re all excited and pround to learn that Prof. Chaohui Yu and Prof. Youming Li have won the first prize of Excellence Scientific Research Achievement Award among Institution of Higher Education (Science and Technology), 2015, with their extraordinary accomplishment in research in Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Treatment.   
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, known as fatty liver, is one of the most epidemic liver diseases. With rapid arising prevalence and tremendous threaten to our health, fatty liver is emerging as new challenge in public health. Current program has conducted a series of research in this area for 15 years and achieved several progresses in this area. Firstly, they revealed main risk factors and disease characteristics of fatty liver among Chinese population, providing new insights into disease prevention and management as well.Secondly, based on Proteomics-Genomics-miRNomics technologies,the group systematically analyzed molecular signature in disease development, replenish theories of fatty liver pathogenesis. Thirdly, they have established distinct methodology of early non-invasive disease diagnosis among Chinese population.
Achievements of this program has been summarized andpublished in a total of 63 articles, and it was authorized with two national patents. Among all the articles in release, 35 are in SCI publications, and among which 4 are in top journals with impact factor over 10 and cited by others for more than 400 times. Other than articles and patents, this program has also successfully cultivated 30 graduate students. The progress of this program has been edited into national teaching material Internal Medicine. Core members of this program have also participated in composing Guideline of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, arousing awareness of fatty liver among medical staffs and standardizing procedures in disease management, thus the efficiency in health care has been improved. This protocol has been extended and widely adopted in a total of 32 general hospitals in 14 provinces among over 200,000 patients, creating sound proceeds both socially and economically.