Dr. Elvis Dong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, an Honorary Scientific Officer (Medical), in Prince of Wales Hospital, Hospital Authority, and an Honorary Researcher in the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, United Kingdom. He has made significant strides in human genomics, particularly through developing bioinformatic algorithms and pipelines, which are pivotal for genomic structural variants diagnosis and research in fetal medicine and infertility. His work has gained widespread recognition internationally and has been adopted by the Hospital Authority in Hong Kong for both clinical and research application. His team also established a Temporal Expression during Development Database (TEDD), v2.0 of which integrates over 15.9 million cells and is cloud-basedly empowered to facilitate understanding of the tissue/cell-type/timepoint specific gene expression profiling. With that, he has served as the first/corresponding author in over 20 articles, featured in prestigious journals including AJHG, and NAR, and orally presented five times in the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG). He serves as the Principal Investigator of 14 competitive grants (GRF, NSFC, HMRF, and ITF), received awards like the “Gold Medals with Congrats of the Jury” at the 15th International Invention Fair. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor for Science China-Life Sciences and BMC Genomics.
