Stephen T.c. Wong PhD

Dr. Stephen T.C. Wong is John S Dunn Distinguished Endowed Chair of Biomedical Engineering; Chairman of Department of Systems Medicine and Bioengineering, Principal Investigator of The NCI Center for Modeling Cancer Development (CMCD), the Center for Bioengineering and Informatics (CBI), and TH and WF Chao Center for Bioinformatics Research and Neurosciences Imaging (BRAIN) at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute (TMHRI); Vice Chairman of Radiology and Chief of Medical Physics, The Methodist Hospital System; and Professor of Radiology, Neurology, Neurosciences, Pathology, and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University. Dr. Wong is a world leader in bioinformatics, image computing, systems biology, high content screening, and databases. Dr. Wong has over two decades of research and leadership experience in academic medicine and private industries. His earlier work was in industry, focused on the development of VLSI and optoelectronics computer chips, imaging information management systems, and eCommerce solutions. In 2002, he returned to academia and founded the HCNR Center for Bioinformatics at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Partners. During his tenure at Harvard, he collaborated closely with two drug screening centers there, ICCB (Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology) at HMS and LDDN (Laboratory for Drug Discovery in Neurodegeneration) at the Harvard Neurodiscovery Center in establishing HTS/HCS programs for cancer and neurodegeneration. Currently his group at TMHRI focuses on fast track drug repositioning for cancer, neurodegeneration, and rare diseases.