SPEAKERS
Wanjin Hong
AFFILIATION:
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), A*STAR
POSITION TITLE:
Professor and Research Director
EDUCATION/TRAINING:
1988-1989 Postdoctoral fellow, The Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo,
USA (under the supervision by Dr. Darrell Doyle)
1983-1987 Ph.D. student in Cell Biology, The Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA (under the supervisor by Dr. Darrell Doyle)
1978-1982 B.S. student, Biology Department, Xiamen University, Fujian, China
HONORS:
2022 The President’s Science and Technology Medal (PSTM)
2022 Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS) Fellowship
2016 2015 2014 2013-
19th A-IMBN Arthur Kornberg Memorial Lecture Award
The Long Service Medal (Singapore National Day Awards)
Public Administration Medal (Silver) (Singapore National Day Awards) Honorable Professor, Institute of Molecular Bioscience (IMB), University of Queensland
2009-2010 President, Science Council of Asia (http://www.scj.go.jp/en/sca/index.html)
2010- Honorable Professor at Xiamen University under the one-thousand Talents Program
1999 National Science Award (now President’s Science Award), Singapore
1983-1988 CUSBEA Fellow
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Prof Hong made significant contributions to our understanding of molecular players (particularly SNAREs, Rab GTPases and sorting nexins) in membrane trafficking as well as the regulatory machinery of the Hippo pathway in cancer.
PUBLICATIONS:
Google-Scholar: Total citations >28,000 & H-index of 92
https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user=sBAuF7AAAAAJ&hl=en