Prof. CHUNG Ming Kei Jake

Prof. CHUNG Ming Kei Jake 鍾明基

Room 402, Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care

2252 8756

jake.chung@cuhk.edu.hk

https://www.jakechunggroup.org

Education

2007 - 2013	Ph.D. Environmental Health Sciences	School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA
2002 - 2005	M.Phil. Biology	Faculty of Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
1999 - 2002	B.Sc. Environmental Science	School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Academic Employments

2024 - Present	Fellow, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2023 - Present	Fellow, Institute of Environment, Energy, and Sustainability, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2023 - Present	Assistant Professor, Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research Fields and Current Research Interests

Exposome/Exposomics
Metabolome/Metabolomics
Mixture Analysis
Environmental Health Data Science
Precision Environmental Health

Representative Publications

2024	Chung, M. K. et al. Decoding the exposome: data science methodologies and implications in exposome-wide association studies (ExWASs). Exposome 4, osae001
2024	Chung, M. K., Hart, B., Santillana, M. & Patel, C. J. Pediatric and Young Adult Household Transmission of the Initial Waves of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States: Administrative Claims Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research 26, e44249
2024	Chen, Y. et al. Gestational and Postpartum Exposure to PM2.5 Components and Glucose Metabolism in Chinese Women: A Prospective Cohort Study. Environ. Sci. Technol. 58, 8675–8684
2023	Fard, P., Chung, M. K. (Jake), Estiri, H. & Patel, C. J. Spatio-temporal interpolation and delineation of extreme heat events in California between 2017 and 2021. Environmental Research 237, 116984
2023	Chung, M. K. et al. Systematic comparisons between Lyme disease and post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome in the U.S. with administrative claims data. eBioMedicine 104524 doi:10.1016/j.ebiom.2023.104524.
2022	Patel, C. J. et al. The demographic and socioeconomic correlates of behavior and HIV infection status across sub-Saharan Africa. Commun Med 2, 1–11
2021	Chung, M. K. et al. Utilizing a Biology-Driven Approach to Map the Exposome in Health and Disease: An Essential Investment to Drive the Next Generation of Environmental Discovery. Environmental Health Perspectives 129, 085001
2019	Chung, M. K., Buck Louis, G. M., Kannan, K. & Patel, C. J. Exposome-wide association study of semen quality: Systematic discovery of endocrine disrupting chemical biomarkers in fertility require large sample sizes. Environment International 125, 505–514
2018	Cui, X. et al. Cardiopulmonary effects of overnight indoor air filtration in healthy non-smoking adults: A double-blind randomized crossover study. Environment International 114, 27–36
2018	Chung, M. K., Kannan, K., Louis, G. M. & Patel, C. J. Toward capturing the exposome: exposure biomarker variability and coexposure patterns in the shared environment. Environmental Science & Technology 52, 8801–8810
2016	Yuan, T. H. et al. Metabolic profiling of residents in the vicinity of a petrochemical complex. Science of The Total Environment 548–549, 260–269
2014	Chung, M. K., Grigoryan, H., Iavarone, A. T. & Rappaport, S. M. Antibody enrichment and mass spectrometry of albumin-cys34 adducts. Chemical Research in Toxicology 27, 400–407
2013	Chung, M. K., Regazzoni, L., McClean, M., Herrick, R. & Rappaport, S. M. A sandwich ELISA for measuring benzo[a]pyrene–albumin adducts in human plasma. Analytical Biochemistry 435, 140–149

Honours and Awards

2018	Full travel grant. NIEHS Autism Grantee Meeting
2011	Scholarship. Public Health Alumni Association, University of California, Berkeley
2010	Invited visiting scholar. Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Professional Activities

Current

International Society of Exposure Science

International Society of Exposure Science (Asia Chapter)

International Society of Exposure Science (Europe Chapter)

Member: International Exposomics Consortium

Member: International Adductomics Consortium

Editorial board: Exposome

Past

American Heart Association

Society of Epidemiologic Research

Teaching

Current

PHPC2009, MEDF1120, EPID6002, PUBH6004, PHPC4041, OENV5006, PHPC3016

College Affiliation in CUHK

New Asia College

Research Grants

2025 Direct grant, CUHK (PI)
2022 Pilot grant, Harvard Chan-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA (Co I)
2021 Pilot grant, Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub Seed Fund, National Science Foundation, USA (Co I)