Carmen Wong, PhD

Dr. Carmen Chak-Lui Wong is currently a 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 team studies the metabolic changes that occur in liver cancer, as well as the tumor microenvironment, and investigates how these factors impact the immune response in liver cancer. Her team employs multi-disciplinary platforms such as mass spectrometry, flow and mass cytometry, cyclic imaging, single-cell omics, somatic genome-editing preclinical mouse models, genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 library screening to study liver cancer biology for the design of precision medicine. Over the years, her work has been published in Hepatology, Gastroenterology, Journal of Hepatology, GUT, PNAS, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Cell Reports, Cell Reports Medicine, 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, 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).