Connie Wong
Stroke and Imaging Inflammation Group
After completing her PhD at Monash University, Prof Wong was trained in the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases at the University of Calgary in Canada and returned to Monash University as a research fellow at the Department of Immunology (Clayton). She has secured continual fellowship and grant support totalling >$14M since the award of her PhD, including ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award, NHMRC Career Development Fellowship levels 1 and 2 (relinquished in favour of other fellowship support), multiple National Heart Foundation (NHF) fellowships, and the highly prestigious CSL Centenary Fellowship ($1.25M for the years of 2019-2023). Prof Wong is the current Level 3 NHF Future Leaders Fellow (2024-2027). Additionally, funding success as lead investigator from diverse sources, including the NHMRC Project (x2), Ideas (x3), Development, NHF Vanguard (x2), MRFF Cardiovascular Mission (x2) and National Critical Research Infrastructure initiative, have enabled her to rapidly grow her team and establish the Stroke and Imaging Inflammation Group in the Department of Medicine. In 2019, Prof Wong was appointed the Deputy Director of Monash Centre for Inflammatory Diseases. To find out more see Prof Connie Wong's Monash profile.