Choon Kiat Ong

Dr. Ong Choon Kiat is the Principal Investigator of Lymphoma Genomic Translational Research Laboratory, National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS). He also holds a co-appointment as an Associate Professor to Duke-NUS Medical School. Dr. Ong obtained his BSc (Hon) in 2000 and PhD in 2006 from the National University of Singapore. During his post-doctoral training, Dr. Ong has led the genomic research in various cancers prevalent in Asia including cholangiocarcinoma and fibroepithelial tumors of the breast. He has published in several high impacts international peer-reviewed journals including the Nature Genetics, Nature and Cancer Discovery. His research interest is to improve the clinical outcomes of lymphomas’ patients through the understanding of cancer genomics and translating the findings into clinical applications. Recently, Dr Ong, along with other collaborating scientists in the field of cancer research, was awarded the “AACR Team Science Award 2018” by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), recognizing the outstanding interdisciplinary team’s work in furthering the knowledge of Asian prevalent cancers, at the same time contributing to the progress of cancer detection, treatment and prevention.