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Who delivers the treatment

Our Team

Treatment is led by a doctor at the Han's clinic. The microbiota test and the preparation itself are made by the research group of Jialan, the manufacturer that runs its own laboratory and donor bank. Below — who these people are and what backs their titles.

Who does what

In brief. The full split of responsibilities, the clinic's documents and the laboratory requirements are on the About the Clinic page.

Han's clinic (Shangrao)

Admits the patient, runs the treatment and the follow-up. The microbiota programme is led by a gastroenterologist.

Jialan company

Performs the microbiota test and prepares the product. Runs the laboratory in Hangzhou and the donor bank.

Coordinator and interpreter

Accompany a patient from abroad: logistics, travel, translation. Medical questions are decided by the doctor, not by the coordinator.

Doctor of the programme

Who leads the treatment

Ding Kun (丁堃)

Deputy chief physician of the gastroenterology department

Graduated from Gannan Medical University. For more than forty years he has worked on complex and hard-to-diagnose gastroenterology cases and on endoscopic diagnosis and treatment of digestive diseases. He has served as director of a digestive endoscopy centre and as deputy chief physician of a tertiary hospital.

Han's is a multi-speciality hospital: its medical committee has 26 specialists, and most of them work in paediatric rehabilitation. This page lists the people who work on microbiota transplantation, not every doctor of the clinic.

Who runs the test and makes the product

The Jialan research group

Seven people: five chief scientists and two research engineers of the laboratory.

Li Yixue (李亦学)

Chief scientist

  • Director of the Bioinformatics Centre, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Director of the Shanghai Centre for Bioinformation Technology
  • Chairman of the Shanghai Society of Bioinformatics

Wang Xin (王欣)

Chief scientist, PhD

  • Darwin College, University of Cambridge, Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre (United Kingdom)
  • Researcher at the Institute of Food Science, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences
  • Deputy chair of the Probiotics, Prebiotics and Health branch of the Chinese Nutrition Society
  • Member of the gut microecology and Helicobacter pylori working group, gastroenterology branch of the Chinese Medical Association
  • Led the creation of an in vitro gut fermentation modelling system and a rapid assessment system for gut microecology
  • Guest editor of npj Science of Food and Nutrients

Ding Xianping (丁显平)

Chief scientist

  • Professor at Sichuan University
  • Biomedical scientist of the Jialan group

Qiu Xiaoyi (邱小益)

Chief scientist

  • Director of the Life Sciences Institute of the Jialan group
  • PhD in biomedicine and chemistry, Central Queensland University (Australia)
  • Postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School (USA)

Zhang Zeling (张泽灵)

Chief scientist

  • Deputy director of the Jialan Life Sciences Institute
  • Physician certified in anti-aging and regenerative medicine by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine

Ma Yubin (马玉斌)

PhD

  • Chief R&D engineer and laboratory director at Jialan Biotechnology
  • PhD in biological and pharmaceutical engineering
  • Member of the provincial register of healthcare experts

Wang Jiawei (王加伟)

PhD

  • Chief technical engineer of the root-cause diagnostics project
  • Head of R&D for the genetic and molecular diagnostics project
  • PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University

Where the test is done

Jialan's laboratory is in Hangzhou. The stool sample is couriered there; the finished product arrives frozen, packed in dry ice.

  • Liquid chromatograph with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
  • Gas chromatograph with mass spectrometry (GC-MS)
  • Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS)
  • Ultra-high performance liquid chromatographs (UHPLC), two units

The instruments are listed from photographs of the laboratory in the company's materials. There are no model or serial numbers there, so we do not quote any.

What your test is compared against

A microbiota test is a genetic reading of gut bacteria, compared afterwards against a large database. The database used belongs to Fudan University: out of roughly eight million microbiota samples collected in China, about six million are held there. The larger the database, the more precise the comparison — one person's data is matched against a large body of records.

The database is curated by Wang Jingsu (王京苏), professor at Fudan University.

This is an expert's spoken explanation as recorded, not an extract from documents.

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