Professor Carmen Wong, Department of Pathology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), obtained her BSc degree in the University of British Columbia in Canada. She obtained her MSc degree in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and her PhD degree in the University of Hong Kong. She received her post-doctoral training at the Johns Hopkins University.

Professor Wong is the recipient of the NSFC Distinguished Young Scholars Fund, NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong & Macau), RGC Research Fellowship, Croucher Innovation Award, UBC Alumni Builder Award, Hong Kong Young Scientist Award, HKU Outstanding Young Researcher Award, HKU Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award, and the Li Ka Shing Prize.

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.

Professor Wong is also Principal Investigator of State Key Laboratory of Liver Research, HKU and Assistant Dean, Core Platforms & Advancement, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU.