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Ian Y. Wong is an Associate Professor of Engineering and Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Brown University. He joined Brown University as an assistant professor of engineering in July 2013 and has since established himself as a leading researcher in the field of cancer bioengineering and mechanobiology.
Dr. Wong received his A.B. magna cum laude in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 2003. He earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University in 2010, where he worked on the directed self-assembly of biomolecular materials with Nick Melosh. His postdoctoral training in BioMEMS and cancer cell migration was with Mehmet Toner and Daniel Irimia at the Center for Engineering in Medicine of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School from 2010-2013.
Wong's research focuses on engineering new technologies to study cancer cell invasion, phenotypic plasticity, and therapeutic resistance. His work spans biomaterials, nanofabrication, 3D printing, directed self-assembly, and polymer physics. Physically, he explores how materials and mechanical aspects of the tumor microenvironment regulate malignant behavior. Biologically, he seeks new insights into single cell heterogeneity and the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). His recent publications demonstrate a strong trend toward integrating topological data analysis with cancer cell mechanics, developing advanced microfluidic devices for tumor modeling, and creating computational approaches to understand cell behavior in 3D environments.
His scientific achievements have been recognized with numerous awards including the NAE Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium participation (2021), Lab on a Chip Emerging Investigator (2017), Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigator (2017), and the Brown University CareerLAB Nathalie Rutherfurd Pierrepont '07 Prize for Advising (2015).
Dr. Wong is actively involved in teaching, offering courses such as ENGN 1110 - Transport and Biotransport Processes and ENGN 2910S - Cancer Nanotechnology. His laboratory, the Wong Laboratory, maintains active collaborations across multiple departments at Brown University, particularly with researchers in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Surgery, and the School of Engineering.
