Carmen Chak-Lui Wong, PhD

Biography

Dr. Carmen Chak-Lui 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 (HKU). She is currently the Assistant Dean of the LKS Faculty of Medicine at HKU. 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 HKU and completed her post-doctoral training from the Johns Hopkins University, studying the roles and molecular mechanisms of hypoxia (oxygen deprivation) in cancer metastasis.

Her research team currently focuses on the impact of hypoxia and other microenvironmental factors in the metabolic reprogramming and immune evasion in liver cancer. Over the years, her work has been 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 Research Student Supervisor Award of HKU, 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).