Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics

Group Leader

GARRY WONG
Professor

Present Position

•  Professor (Bioinformatics)

Address

A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences
University of Kuopio
P.O.Box 1627
FI-70211 Kuopio
FINLAND 

Phone + 358 40 355 2108
Fax + 358 17 163 030
E-mail garry.wong@uku.fi

Academic Degrees

•  B.S. (Environmental Toxicology), University of California, Davis 1984
•  M.S. (Toxicology), North Carolina State University, 1987 
•  Ph.D. (Toxicology), North Carolina State University, 1990
•  Docent (Molecular Pharmacology), University of Kuopio, 1996 

Major Positions and Appointments

• Biologist, National Insitutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, U.S.A. 1984 - 1990 
• Intramural Research Fellow, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A. 1990 - 1993
• Visiting Researcher, ALKO Ltd. Helsinki,  Finland 1994 - 1996
• Researcher, University of Kuopio 1996 - 2000 
• Junior Research Fellow, Academy of Finland, 1997 - 2000 
• Senior Research Fellow, Academy of Finland, 2000 - 3/2005
• Research Director, University of Kuopio 2001 - 3/2005
• Visiting Scholar, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A. 2001 (6 months) 
• Professor, University of Kuopio, 4/2005 - 3/2010

Major Research Interests

• Microarrays and  C. elegans as technology platforms for understanding drug actions