Dr. Wei Jia, Chair professor and Vivian Taam Wong Professor in Integrative Medicine of University of Hong Kong, is a distinguished member of the Academia Europaea, having been elected to the Physiology & Neuroscience Section in 2023. His outstanding contributions to the field of scientific research have earned him consistent recognition on the "Highly Cited Chinese Researchers" list by Elsevier and the "World's top 2% scientists" list by Stanford University. Notably, his groundbreaking research on the interaction between melamine in infant formula and childhood gut bacteria, leading to kidney toxicity, was selected as one of the top ten scientific breakthroughs by science magazine in 2013.