Victor Wong, M.D.

Bio

Dr. Victor Wong is a pediatric hematologist/oncologist at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and an assistant clinical professor in pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

He is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric hematology/oncology.

Dr. Wong completed his pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at UC San Diego. He developed an academic interest in cancer immunology during his fellowship studying tumor-induced exhaustion at the La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology in Dr. Anjana Rao's lab. His clinical interests include examining the role of tumor profiling in guiding targeted therapy. In the near future, he hopes to combine his basic science and clinical interests to explore novel therapies for refractory and relapsed cancers through both translational and clinical projects.

Dr. Wong spends most of his time on leukemia/lymphoma services where he looks forward to teaching medical students, pediatric residents and pediatric hematology/oncology fellows.

In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters.

Publications

Identification of NTRK fusions in pediatric mesenchymal tumors.
Pavlick D, Schrock AB, Stephens PF, Kuo DJ, Ahn H, Turpin B, Allen JM, Rosenweig M, Badizadegan K, Miller VA, Wong V, Ali SM

A case of advanced infantile myofibromatosis harboring a novel MYH10-RET fusion.
Rosenzweig M, Ali SM, Wong V, Schrock AB, Laetsch TW, Ahrens W, Heilmann A, Morley S, Chudnovsky Y, Erlich RL, Wang K, Stephens PJ, Ross JS, Miller VA, Oesterheld J

Exhaustion-associated regulatory regions in CD8+ tumor-infiltrating T cells.
Mognol GP, Spreafico R, Wong V, Scott-Browne JP, Togher S, Hoffmann A, Hogan PG, Rao A, Trifari S

Dynamic Changes in Chromatin Accessibility Occur in CD8+ T Cells Responding to Viral Infection.
Scott-Browne JP, Lopez-Moyado IF, Trifari S, Wong V, Chavez L, Rao A, Pereira RM

Evaluation of a Congenital Infantile Fibrosarcoma by Comprehensive Genomic Profiling Reveals an LMNA-NTRK1 Gene Fusion Responsive to Crizotinib
Wong V, Pavlick D, Brennan T, Yelensky R, Crawford J, Ross JS, Miller VA, Malicki D, Stephens PJ, Ali SM, Ahn H

Extensive subdural spinal enhancement mimicking leptomeningeal disease in a young child with posterior fossa tumour following lumbar puncture and surgery.
Wong V, Crawford JR

Fatal gastrointestinal hemorrhage in a young boy with newly diagnosed metastatic medulloblastoma on high dose dexamethasone.
Wong V, Lefloch N, Crawford JR

Loss of the astrocyte glutamate transporter GLT1 modifies disease in SOD1(G93A) mice.
Pardo AC, Wong V, Benson LM, Dykes M, Tanaka K, Rothstein JD, Maragakis NJ

Degeneration of respiratory motor neurons in the SOD1 G93A transgenic rat model of ALS.
Llado J, Haenggeli C, Pardo A, Wong V, Benson L, Coccia C, Rothstein JD, Shefner JM, Maragakis NJ

Glial restricted precursors protect against chronic glutamate neurotoxicity of motor neurons in vitro
Maragakis NJ, Rao MS, Llado J, Wong V, Xue H, Pardo A, Herring J, Kerr D, coccia C, Rothstein JD

Glutamate transporter expression and f�unction in human glial progenitors.
Maragakis NJ, Dietrich J, Wong V, Xue H, Mayer-Proschel M, Rao MS, Rothstein JD