Professor Gane Ka-Shu Wong

Professor Wong is jointly appointed in the Department of Biological Sciences (Faculty of Science) and the Department of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry). He identifies and develops technological solutions enabled by large-scale DNA/RNA sequencing. The work is not organism specific. Many different areas of biological and/or medical research are covered. The only commonality is computational analyses always play a critical role. He is perhaps best-known for phylodiverse sequencing of plant species, including the 1KP transcriptome initiative (now finished) and the 10KP genome initiative (ramping up). On the medical side, he is launching two new programs for drug target and lead compound discovery to exploit the explosive growth in databases for human (medical) and non-human species, respectively.