Grace Lai-Hung Wong

Professor Grace Wong is the Professor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2001 with honors and distinctions in Medicine. In 2010, she received the Doctoral Degree of Medicine of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Grace Wong’s main research interest includes big data research in hepatology, chronic viral hepatitis, and risk reduction of hepatocellular carcinoma, and non-invasive assessment
of liver fibrosis. 

She has published over 470 articles in peer-reviewed journals including Gastroenterology, Journal of Hepatology, JAMA Network Open, Gut and Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology. She is currently the editor-in-chief of Hepatology (Hong Kong edition), the associate editor of Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. She has been awarded for the Young Investigator Award of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver in 2009, the Distinguished Research Paper Award for Young Investigators of the Hong Kong College of Physicians in 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2015, the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Hong Kong (香港十大傑出青年) in 2014, Sir David Todd Lectureship of Hong Kong College of Physicians in 2016, the Distinguished Young Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Medicine in 2017, the Emerging Leader Lectureship of the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Foundation (JGHF), the Presidential Awards in the Global Hepatitis Summit 2021 and the Richard Yu Lectureship of Hong Kong College of Physicians in 2021, Best Reviewer Award 2022 of the Journal of Hepatology, and Highly Cited Researchers 2023, Cross-Field, Clarivate Analytics. She is the panel member of the
EASL HBV Clinical Practice Guidelines 2024.