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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Prince Mahidol Award
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

David T.W. Wong is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with extensive work in subfields such as Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Infectious Diseases, Biomedical Engineering, and Physiology.

The scientist has contributed significantly to topics including Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Salivary Gland Disorders and Functions, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, Extracellular vesicles in disease, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques.

Recent publications by David T.W. Wong cover a range of topics and appear in notable venues:

  • Acoustofluidic centrifuge for nanoparticle enrichment and separation (2021), published in Science Advances
  • The Liquid Biopsy Consortium: Challenges and opportunities for early cancer detection and monitoring (2023), published in Cell Reports Medicine
  • Saliva Diagnostics (2022), published in Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry
  • Biological biomarkers of oral cancer (2023), published in Periodontology 2000
  • A solution to the biophysical fractionation of extracellular vesicles: Acoustic Nanoscale Separation via Wave-pillar Excitation Resonance (ANSWER) (2022), published in Science Advances

Frequent coauthors working alongside David T.W. Wong include Feng Li, Jordan Cheng, David Chia, Yong Kim, and Samantha Chiang.

The scientist's work is often published in venues such as Cancer Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Science Advances, Cancers, and Cell Reports Medicine.

David T.W. Wong has received recognition in the form of awards including the Prince Mahidol Award in 2011 and was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Capillary electrophoresis mass spectrometry-based saliva metabolomics identified oral, breast and pancreatic cancer-specific profiles

    Masahiro Sugimoto;David T W Wong;David T W Wong;Akiyoshi Hirayama;Tomoyoshi Soga

  • Salivary microRNA: Discovery, Characterization, and Clinical Utility for Oral Cancer Detection

    Noh Jin Park;Hui Zhou;David Elashoff;Bradley S. Henson

  • Multiple regions within 8q24 independently affect risk for prostate cancer.

    Christopher A Haiman;Nick Patterson;Matthew L Freedman;Matthew L Freedman;Simon R Myers

  • Salivary Transcriptome Diagnostics for Oral Cancer Detection

    Yang Li;Maie A R St. John;Xiaofeng C. Zhou;Yong Kim

  • Comparative Affinity of Duloxetine and Venlafaxine for Serotonin and Norepinephrine Transporters in vitro and in vivo, Human Serotonin Receptor Subtypes, and Other Neuronal Receptors

    Frank P Bymaster;Laura J Dreshfield-Ahmad;Penny G Threlkeld;Janice L Shaw

  • Salivary Biomarkers: Toward Future Clinical and Diagnostic Utilities

    Janice M. Yoshizawa;Christopher A. Schafer;Jason J. Schafer;James J. Farrell

  • Variations of oral microbiota are associated with pancreatic diseases including pancreatic cancer

    James J Farrell;Lei Zhang;Hui Zhou;David Chia

  • The Landscape of MicroRNA, Piwi-Interacting RNA, and Circular RNA in Human Saliva

    Jae Hoon Bahn;Qing Zhang;Feng Li;Tak-Ming Chan

  • Human body fluid proteome analysis

    Shen Hu;Joseph A. Loo;David T. Wong

  • Salivary Proteomics for Oral Cancer Biomarker Discovery

    Shen Hu;Martha Arellano;Pinmanee Boontheung;Jianghua Wang

  • Saliva: an emerging biofluid for early detection of diseases

    Yu Hsiang Lee;David T. Wong

  • The proteomes of human parotid and submandibular/sublingual gland salivas collected as the ductal secretions

    Paul Denny;Fred K. Hagen;Markus Hardt;Lujian Liao

  • Interleukin 6 and interleukin 8 as potential biomarkers for oral cavity and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma.

    Maie A R St. John;Yang Li;Xiaofeng C. Zhou;Paul Denny

  • Salivary diagnostics powered by nanotechnologies, proteomics and genomics.

    David T. Wong

  • Saliva: diagnostics and therapeutic perspectives.

    Nadine Spielmann;David T. Wong

  • Salivary proteomic and genomic biomarkers for primary sjögren's syndrome

    Shen Hu;Jianghua Wang;Jiska Meijer;Sonya Ieong

  • Saliva as a diagnostic tool for periodontal disease: current state and future directions

    William V. Giannobile;Thomas Beikler;Janet S. Kinney;Christoph A. Ramseier

  • Comparative Human Salivary and Plasma Proteomes

    J.A. Loo;W. Yan;P. Ramachandran;D.T. Wong

  • Effect of duration of fixation on quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction analyses.

    Maricris Macabeo-Ong;David G Ginzinger;Nusi Dekker;Alex McMillan

  • Saliva diagnostics - Current views and directions

    Karolina Elżbieta Kaczor-Urbanowicz;Carmen Martin Carreras-Presas;Katri Aro;Michael Tu

Frequent Co-Authors

David Robertson
David Robertson Vanderbilt University
David Elashoff
David Elashoff University of California, Los Angeles
David Chia
David Chia University of California, Los Angeles
Joseph A. Loo
Joseph A. Loo University of California, Los Angeles
Peter F. Weller
Peter F. Weller Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Wu Chou Su
Wu Chou Su National Cheng Kung University
Chih-Ming Ho
Chih-Ming Ho University of California, Los Angeles
Stephen J. Galli
Stephen J. Galli Stanford University
Wenyuan Shi
Wenyuan Shi ADA Forsyth Institute
Nitash P. Balsara
Nitash P. Balsara University of California, Berkeley

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