Welcome Dr. Hon Leong

Friday, August 16, 2013

Dr. Hon Leong was born and raised in Edmonton, AB and received his BSc (Biological Sciences/Business) at the University of Alberta in 1999. He studied cardiac metabolism during his MSc studies at the University of British Columbia (2003) and then shifted his graduate studies to thrombosis and transplant immunology at both the University of British Columbia and at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital (Middlesex, UK). During that time, he was awarded several PhD studentships and Awards from Canadian Blood Services, British Heart Foundation, Heart and Stroke Foundation, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research and CIHR. Deciding to switch to cancer research, he continues his Post-Doctoral Fellowship with Dr. Ann Chambers and Dr. Joseph Chin to develop novel blood-based tests for the diagnosis and prognosis of urological malignancies. He has been awarded fellowships from the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, US Department of Defence Prostate Cancer Research Program, CIHR-STP, and the Heart and Stroke Foundation. He was recently named a Prostate Cancer Canada/Movember Rising Star in 2013.