Principal Investigator
CUHK Employment
Assistant Professor
School of Pharmacy
Faculty of Medicine
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Contact Info
Email: billyng@cuhk.edu.hk
Biography
Professor Ng research interests are chemical biology, drug discovery, and medicinal chemistry. He completed his postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Prior to Harvard, he was a research fellow at University of Oxford, with funding supports from the Croucher Foundation and Marie Curie Fellowship (declined). He was a Fulbright Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during his graduate study. He obtained his Ph.D. and B.Sc. (1st Class Hons.) in Chemistry from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
Google Scholar ProfileResearch Training
2016-2019
Harvard Medical School / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Research Fellow in Medicine
Mentor: Dr. Jun Qi
2014-2016
University of Oxford
Croucher Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
Mentor: Prof. Benjamin G. Davis, FRS
Education
2013-2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Fulbright Scholar (Visiting Ph.D. student)
Mentor: Prof. Stephen L. Buchwald
2007-2014
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ph.D. in Chemistry; Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Awardee
Mentor: Prof. Tony K. M. Shing
B.Sc. in Chemistry (1st Class Hons.)
Fellowships
2016
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship
2014-2016
Croucher Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
2013-2014
Fulbright-Lee Hysan Research Fellowship
2010-2014
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship
Honors
2022
Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award, US National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
2022
Biomedicines Young Investigator Award
2021
Selected Participant of Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) 2021
2020
Faculty Innovation Award
2016
Best Poster Presentation Award, Oxford Synthesis Conference
2016
Travel Award of International Symposium on Chemical Biology
2015
Selected Participant of 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
2013
Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence Award
2012
Professor Charles K. Kao Student Creativity Awards – First Runner-up
2010
T C Cheng Postgraduate Scholarship
2009, 2007
College Head List
2009, 2008, 2007
Dean’s Honours List
2009, 2008, 2007
Dr. James C.N. Ma Memorial Scholarship
2009
Ma Chao Or Memorial Scholarship
2009
Professor Lau Oi-wah Memorial Scholarship
2008
Social Service Award Scheme – Bronze Medal
2007
Wong Man Hop Scholarship
Patents
Ng, W.-L., Lyu, M., Scheeff, S.Carbobicyclic Nucleosides for Treatment of Viral Infection.
US Provisional Application No. 63/331,670. Filing Date: April 15, 2022.Poon, E. N. Y., Ng, W.-L., Kwok, K. S. M., Lee, C.Methods for Assessing Toxicity of a Compound.
US Provisional Application No. 63/191,782. Filing Date: May 21, 2021.Ng, W.-L., Chan, C. W. M., Ko, H., Lai, H. M., Lo, H. S., Khan, K. S. Drug Repurposing for Treatment of Coronavirus.
US Provisional Application No. US63/027,620. Filing Date: May 20, 2020.Ng, W.-L., Li, F., Chan, Y.-C., Shing, T. K. M., Cheung, M. H., Lo, H. S., Jiang, X. Carbobicyclic Nucleosides and Methods for Treatment of Coronavirus.
US Provisional Application No. US 62/299,029. Filing Date: March 16, 2020.Ng, W.-L., Huang, J., Yan, Y. C. L., Poon, C. S. D., Li, H. Y. Chemical probes for in vivo non-invasive imaging.
US Patent Application No. US62/729,998. Filing Date: Sept 11, 2018.Shing, T. K. M., Ng, W.-L., Li, H.-C., Lau, K.-M., Chan, A. K. N., Lau, C. B.-S. Novel compounds for treating diabetes.
US Patent Application No. US15/345,252. Filing Date: Nov 7, 2016.
CN Patent Application No. CN 108059589. Filing Date: Dec 12, 2016.
Professional Associations
Associate member of American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Member of International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS)
Member of American Chemical Society (ACS)
Associate member of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)