Pak Kin WONG
Pak Kin WONG
Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Surgery, Pennsylvania State Univ., USA
Dr. Pak Kin Wong is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Surgery at the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Wong joined Penn State as a Full Professor through the Dean’s Frontier Faculty search at the College of Engineering in 2015. Prior to Penn State, Dr. Wong was an Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering GIDP, the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center, and the Bio5 Institute at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2005. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles across multiple disciplines, including Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Communications, Science Advances, and Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Wong’s research focuses on single cell biosensing for elucidating collective cell migration in tissue regeneration and cancer metastasis, and rapid infectious disease diagnostics. His laboratory has established a bioengineering framework, which integrates biomanufacturing of 3D organotypic models, single-cell biosensors, biomechanical analysis of cell-cell and cell-matrix interaction, and agent-based computational modeling, for elucidating collective cell migration from a systems perspective. Using the multidisciplinary framework, his team deciphered the stochastic emergence of leader cells during wound healing and collective cancer invasion. Toward translational applications, he has pioneered single-cell microfluidic and biosensing techniques for point-of-care diagnostics of multidrug-resistant pathogens. In collaboration with his industrial partners, e.g., GE Global Research, Dr. Wong’s group has demonstrated single-cell antimicrobial susceptibility testing and pathogen identification toward medical and defense applications. These techniques are currently being applied in multiple pre-clinical and clinical studies in Stanford University, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Johns Hopkins University, and Penn State Hershey Medical Center.
Dr. Wong has profound contributions to the professional societies around the world. Dr. Wong is an editor of IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, IEEE Transaction on Nanotechnology, SLAS Technology, and Scientific Reports. He served in organizing committees for numerous international conferences, including General Chair in IEEE NANOMED 2018 in Hawaii and General Co-chair in IEEE NEMS 2017 in Los Angeles. Among other honors, Dr. Wong was awarded the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award in 2010, Arizona Engineering Faculty Fellow in 2011, AAFSAA outstanding Faculty Award in 2013, and JALA 10 – A Top 10 Breakthrough in Innovation in 2015. Dr. Wong is elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening for his contributions in biomedical engineering and nanomedicine.
Lab Website: https://www.bme.psu.edu/labs/sbl/index.html