Dr. Alex Wong graduated cum laude in Biological Sciences from Cornell University and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. As a medical student he was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Pre-doctoral Fellowship to study angiogenesis and cancer biology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Wong pursued post-doctoral clinical training in Plastic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and post-doctoral basic research fellowship training in progenitor cell biology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Prior to starting his first faculty position, Dr. Wong completed additional sub-specialty clinical fellowship training in Reconstructive Microsurgery at NYU Langone Medical Center. Dr. Wong started his research laboratory in 2010 at the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California and was most recently at the Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope. His group has had a longstanding interest in studying fundamental aspects of tissue regeneration as it relates to lymphangiogenesis and wound healing. Over the past decade, Dr. Wong’s group has received extramural support from numerous agencies including the National Institutes of Health (K08 & R01), Plastic Surgery Foundation, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and Lymphatic Education & Research Network. Dr. Wong will be joining Rutgers New Jersey Medical School as Professor & Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Surgery and Member of the Center for Immunity and Inflammation.
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