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

191 citations
Safety of combining radiotherapy with immune-checkpoint inhibition.
William L. Hwang, Luke R.G. Pike, Trevor J. Royce, Brandon A. Mahal, Jay S. Loeffler
Nature Reviews. Clinical Oncology. 2018-08-01
112 citations
Conventional type I dendritic cells maintain a reservoir of proliferative tumor-antigen specific TCF-1+ CD8+ T cells in tumor-draining lymph nodes.
Jason M. Schenkel, Rebecca H. Herbst, David Canner, Amy Li, Michelle Hillman
Immunity. 2021-10-12
30 citations
Cell-Autonomous Cxcl1 Sustains Tolerogenic Circuitries and Stromal Inflammation via Neutrophil-Derived TNF in Pancreatic Cancer.
Anna Bianchi, Iago De Castro Silva, Nilesh U Deshpande, Samara Singh, Siddharth Mehra
Cancer Discovery. 2023-06-02

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