CUHK Employment
Associate Professor
School of Pharmacy
Faculty of Medicine
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Contact Info
Email: billyng@cuhk.edu.hk
Biography
Professor Billy Ng’s research interests are in 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.)
Awards & Honors
2025
SH Ho Visiting Professorship at Stanford University
2024
Academic Young Investigator Award, ACS Division of Organic Chemistry
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)
2020
Faculty Innovation Award, CUHK Faculty of Medicine
2016
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
2014
Croucher Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
2013
Fulbright Scholarship
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
International Talks
2025
Invited speaker at ASBMB Conference: O-GlcNAcylation in Health and Disease, Durham, NC, USA
2025
Oral presentation at Asian Chemical Biology Initiative (ACBI): Hanoi Meeting, Vietnam
2025
Oral presentation at 7th Asian Chemical Biology Conference, Hong Kong
2024
Oral presentation at ChemoRevolution: From Enabling Tools to Enlightening Discoveries, Sanya, China
2024
Oral presentation at SMART Symposium on Targeted Protein Degradation: From Basic Science to Therapeutic Application, Shenzhen, China
2024
Oral presentation at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU)-China Scientific Forum, Shanghai, China
2024
Oral presentation at the Young Glycosciences Investigators Symposium, American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall Meeting, Denver, CO, USA
2024
Oral presentation at the Academic Young Investigators’ Symposium, American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall Meeting, Denver, CO, USA
2024
Oral presentation at the 31st International Carbohydrate Symposium (ICS2024), Shanghai, China
2024
Oral presentation at International Young Glycoscience Investigators Symposium, Shanghai, China
2024
Oral presentation at Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conference on Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Suzhou, China
2023
Oral presentation at 12th Annual Meeting of the International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS), Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Reviewer Roles
Journal Review Activities
Ad hoc Reviewer for over 40 journals; Recognized “Excellent Reviewer” by Publons – Science Translational Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Nature Chemical Biology, Molecular Cell, Nature Communications, Science Advances, eLife, ACS Central Science, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Journal of Biological Chemistry, JCI Insight, iScience, Organic Letter, Journal of Organic Chemistry, Chemical Communications, Protein Science, Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, ACS Bio & Med Chem Au, ACS Omega, Antiviral Research, Viruses, Immunology, Virology Journal, Pathogens, Synlett, Tetrahedron, Tetrahedron Letter etc.
Grant Review Activities
Since 2024
Marsden Fund, Royal Society of New Zealand
Since 2022
Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant (AARG)
Since 2021
European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant, Panel PE5
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)