Prof Hwang Ying Khee, William

Biography

A/Prof William Hwang is Medical Director (Designate) of the National Cancer Centre Singapore. He is currently Head and Senior Consultant of Department of Hematology of the Singapore General Hospital as well as Head of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Blood Cancer Centre (SDBCC). He also serves as Director of SingHealth Transplant and Medical Director of the Singapore Cord Blood Bank. He is Principal Investigator of the Laboratory of Haematopoietic Stem Cells and Associate Professor of the Duke-NUS Medical School as well as Clinical Lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin Medical School. He has served as President of the World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA) as well as President of the Singapore Society of Hematology (SSH), and was President of the 2016 Asia Pacific Blood and Marrow Transplant Group (APBMT) Congress in Singapore.. He is currently chairing the Chapter of Haematologists as well as the workgroup on Biobanking for the Ministry of Health. He has close to 100 publications in Haematology and Transplantation and is one of the leading researchers in his field of haematopoietic and mesenchymal stem cell research. He has also put together the publication of two books in the field of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation as well as several book chapters.

Research Interest

A/Prof Hwang's research has centered on hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, particularly in the field of ex vivo expansion of cord blood hematopoietic stem cells and mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) therapy, including the use of MSC substitutes for therapy.