Carmen Wong

Biography

Dr. Carmen Wong is currently an Associate Professor and Principal Investigator in the Department of Pathology and State Key Laboratory of Liver Research at the University of Hong Kong. She is the program leader of the liver cancer program at Center of Oncology and Immunology at InnoHealth, Hong Kong. She obtained her PhD degree in the University of Hong Kong and completed her post-doctoral training in the Johns Hopkins University, studying the roles and molecular mechanisms of hypoxia (oxygen deprivation) in cancer metastasis. Her research team currently focuses on the metabolism and immune microenvironment in liver cancer. Her research team also employs different preclinical mouse models to study precision medicine in liver cancer and to understand the mechanisms by which liver cancer develops resistance to different treatments. Over the years, her work was published in Hepatology, Gastroenterology, Journal of Hepatology, GUT, PNAS, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Cell Reports, and the Journal of Clinical Investigation. She is the recipient of the Croucher Innovation Award, Outstanding Young Researcher Award of HKU, National Natural Science Foundation of China Excellent Young Scientist Fund, Hong Kong Young Scientist Award, the Best PhD thesis Awards of HKU, Croucher Fellowship, University of British Columbia (Canada) Alumni Builder Award. She is an elected member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Science. She is the co-editor-in-chief of Hepatology Communications (AASLD).