Associate ProfessorJustin Wong

Dr. Justin Wong is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, the University of Sydney. He was formerly a Faculty member and head of the Epigenetics and RNA Biology Program at the Centenary Institute from 2018-2023. He has over 15 years of experience in epigenetic and RNA biology research, which focuses mainly on understanding how these key molecular mechanisms govern cellular differentiation, and how aberrancies in these mechanisms lead to diseases including cancer and inflammatory disorders.He is passionate to determine the crosstalk between alternative splicing and modifications to RNA in normal physiology and disease development. His passion is to provide new insights into these fundamental biological mechanisms, which can be targeted to improve health.

Dr Wong is a previous recipient of a Cancer Research Network Early Career Researcher Award in 2016. In 2018, he received one of the twenty Sydney Research Accelerator Prizes for early- to mid-career researchers within the University of Sydney. He is the recipient of the prestigious Ruth Stephens Gani Medal in 2019, awarded by the Australian Academy of Science to recognise his outstanding contribution to the field of human genetics.