People | Wong Lab

- Melissa Hirose Wong, Ph.D.
- Appointments and titles
  - Professor of Cell, Developmental and Cancer Biology, School of Medicine
  - Rood Family Endowed Professor of Cancer Research
  - Vice Chair, Cell, Developmental and Cancer Biology, School of Medicine
  - Associate Director of Basic Science, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, School of Medicine

Graduate program memberships

Program in Mollecular and Cellular Biosciences

Cell and Developmental Biology

Cancer Biology

Professional memberships

American Association for Cancer Research

International Society for Stem Cell Research

American Gastroenterological Association

Education

1987 - B.A., molecular, cellular, developmental biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

1994 - Ph.D., molecular cellular pathobiology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine/Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

Experience

1995-1998 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University School of Medicine

1998-2001 - Instructor, Washington University School of Medicine

2001-2008 - Assistant Professor, OHSU

2008-present - Associate Professor, OHSU

2013-present - Vice Chair, Cell, Developmental and Cancer Biology

2022-present - Professor, OHSU