Assistant Professor of Engineering Ian Wong has been selected as an associate scientific advisor for Science Translational Medicine. Wong is one of 28 early-career translational scientists selected, and will serve for a period of one year. In addition to acting as advisors for the journal, these scientists will scan the literature weekly and select and summarize research papers to be highlighted in the Editors' Choice section of Science Translational Medicine. Each Associate Advisor will have approximately seven of their articles appear in Science Translational Medicine over the coming year.
Prof. Wong engineers new technologies to study cancer cell invasion, phenotypic plasticity and therapeutic resistance. He received his A.B. magna cum laude in applied mathematics from Harvard in 2003. He did his graduate work on the directed self-assembly of biomolecular materials, receiving a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Stanford in 2010. He did his postdoctoral training in BioMEMS and cancer cell migration at the Center for Engineering in Medicine of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School from 2010-2013. Wong joined Brown University as assistant professor of engineering in July 2013. He is a recipient of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship as well as the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellowship.
Date
April 22, 2015