Dr. Wei Dai (MD, MSc, PhD)

Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Oncology, The University of Hong Kong [2019-Present]

Honorary Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong Shen Zhen Hospital, China [2020-Prsent]

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Dr. Wei Dai is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Oncology at the University of Hong Kong and honorary Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital. She obtained her PhD in Cancer Bioinformatics in the Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London in UK and received the Gordon Hamilton-Fairley Young Investigator Award from the British Association of Cancer Research (BACR).  She was also nominated for the Outstanding Young Researcher Award in Hong Kong in 2020. With a multidisciplinary background, Dr. Dai is leading a research team including biologists, computer scientists and bioengineers working closely with clinical oncologists. Her research interest mainly lies in two areas: 1) application and development of bioinformatics tools to identify biomarkers and therapeutic targets in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) for precision medicine and 2) understanding the genetic basis and molecular mechanisms driving cancer metastasis and drug resistance by multi-omics approaches. Her studies and collaborative work have led to several papers published in PNAS, Nature Communications, Clinical Cancer Research, and eBioMedicine etc.