Dr. John Wong is Dean of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Deputy Chief Executive of the National University Health System (NUHS) and Director of the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (NCIS). A medical oncologist-haematologist, Dr. Wong obtained his MBBS from NUS and did his residency and fellowship at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr Wong jointly founded the Cancer Therapeutics Research Group (CTRG), a multi-national consortium of nine institutions. He is a member of the International Education Council for Molecular Targeted Therapy for Cancer, has served on the American Society of Clinical Oncology International Affairs Committee and has been a faculty member of the International Oncology Foundation Advisory Board. Dr. Wong’s research interests are in the development of new drugs, new treatment strategies, and differences between Asian and Caucasian cancers.