Jason Wong was formerly an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and an Associate Professor at the Prince of Wales Clinical School at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He received his BSc (Hons I), specialising in bioinformatics from the University of Sydney. As an Oxford-Australia scholar, he went on to complete a DPhil in bioanalytical chemistry at the University of Oxford, UK. This was followed by an Irish Government post-doctoral fellowship at the Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, before he returned to Sydney to establish his research group in cancer genomics. He has published over 100 original peer-reviewed journal articles with senior authorship in journals including Nature, Science, Science Advances, Cell Genomics, Cell Reports, Genome Biology, Blood, etc. His current research is focused on the study of mutational processes in cancer and their ultimate effect on gene regulation and function.