WilliamLiangHwangMDPhD

Gastrointestinal Cancer

Resident Physician

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Massachusetts General Hospital
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone+1 617-726-5820

Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolResidency, Radiation Oncology, 2016 - 2020
Massachusetts General HospitalInternship, Internal Medicine, 2015 - 2016
Harvard Medical SchoolClass of 2015, MD, Summa cum laude
Harvard UniversityPhD, Biophysics, 2010 - 2013
University of OxfordMSc, Chemistry, Rhodes Scholar, 2006 - 2008
Duke UniversityBSE, BSE, AB, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Physics, Summa cum laude, 2002 - 2006

Merit Award (ASCO Annual Meeting) Conquer Cancer Foundation/American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2020
Resident Poster Viewing Recognition Award American Society for Radiation Oncology, 2019
Young Investigator Award Conquer Cancer Foundation/American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2019
Young Investigator Travel Award American Pancreatic Association, 2019
Merit Award (GU Cancer Symposium) Conquer Cancer Foundation/American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2018
Research Resident Grant Radiological Society of North America, 2018
Clinical Research Award Massachusetts General Hospital, 2017
William Shipley Research Award Massachusetts General Hospital, 2017
First Place in Clinical Research Massachusetts Medical Society, 2017
Resident Teaching Award in Medicine Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2016
Summa cum laude Harvard Medical School, 2015
Seidman Prize for Outstanding Senior Medical Student Thesis Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, 2015
Martha Gray Prize for Excellence in Research Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, 2012
Soros Fellowship 2008-2010
Rhodes Scholarship 2006-2008
Lab on a Chip Research Award Royal Society of Chemistry, 2007
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PubMed

Targeting heterogeneous tumor microenvironments in pancreatic cancer mouse models of metastasis by TGF-β depletion.
Sophia Y Chen, Heng-Chung Kung, Birginia Espinoza, India Washington, Kai Chen
JCI Insight. 2024-11-08
2 citations
Spatially resolved analysis of pancreatic cancer identifies therapy-associated remodeling of the tumor microenvironment.
Carina Shiau, Jingyi Cao, Dennis Gong, Mark T Gregory, Nicholas J Caldwell
Nature Genetics. 2024-11-01
Integrating priorities at the intersection of cancer and neuroscience.
William L Hwang, Ella N Perrault, Alexander Birbrair, Brandi J Mattson, David H Gutmann
Cancer Cell. 2024-10-15

Study Reveals How Cancer Immunotherapy Leads to Deadly Form of Heart Inflammation in Some PatientsNovember 6th, 2024
Hopper-Belmont Foundation Grants Awarded to Pancreatic Cancer Research PioneersNovember 17th, 2020

Radiotherapy-Mediated Reprogramming of the Immune Ecosystem in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma at Single-Cell ResolutionYoung Investigator Award, Conquer Cancer Foundation/American Society of Clinical Oncology2019–Present
Molecular Signatures of Circulating Tumor Cells to Predict Treatment Response in Muscle-invasive Bladder CancerRadiological Society of North America Research Resident Grant2018–Present