He is also serving as the Director of the Genomics and Bioinformatics Core at the faculty. Dr. Wong was born and raised in Hong Kong and received a Diploma in Biotechnology in Singapore and a first class Honours (BSc) and a PhD degrees in Genetics in Australia. Before joining UM, Dr. Wong spent six years as a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School in U.S.A. His longstanding research interest is to understand when and how genes are turned on and off. He is currently studying this topic on a number of medically and industrially important fungi.