Biography:
Dr. Kwong is an Assistant Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering of Georgia Tech and Emory School of Medicine. He earned his B.S. in Bioengineering with Highest Honors from University of California at Berkeley, his Ph.D. from Caltech, and conducted postdoctoral studies at MIT. As director of the Laboratory for Synthetic Immunity (LSI), Dr. Kwong leads a multidisciplinary team dedicated to advancing human health by merging engineering approaches with discoveries in immunology. His research directly impacts a broad range of complex human diseases including cancer, transplantation medicine, and infectious diseases. His work has been published in leading scientific journals such as Nature Biotechnology and Nature Medicine, and profiled broadly including coverage in The Economist, NPR, BBC, and WGBH-2, Boston’s PBS station. In recognition of his work, Dr. Kwong was named a "Future Leader in Cancer Research and Translational Medicine" by the Massachusetts General Hospital, and selected by the National Academy of Engineering to the US Frontiers of Engineering. He is recipient of the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface, NIH Director's New Innovator Award, and the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation Award. Dr. Kwong is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of Glympse Bio, which is developing a powerful new paradigm in diagnostics to enable noninvasive and predictive monitoring of multiple human diseases. He holds 11 issued or pending patents in biomedical technology.