Gabe A. Kwong

Dr. Kwong is an Associate Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering of Georgia Tech and Emory School of Medicine. He earned his B.S. in Bioengineering with Highest Honors from UC Berkeley, his Ph.D. from Caltech, and conducted postdoctoral studies at MIT. Dr. Kwong directs the Laboratory for Synthetic Immunity where he leads a multidisciplinary team focused on engineering immune-based medicines to intercept and treat complex diseases including cancer, transplantation medicine, and infectious diseases. In recognition of his work, Dr. Kwong was named a “Future Leader in Cancer Research and Translational Medicine” by the Massachusetts General Hospital, and selected by the National Academy of Engineering to the US Frontiers of Engineering. He is the recipient of the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface, NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, the Shurl, and Kay Curci Foundation Award, TEDMED Hive Innovator Award, the Sigma Xi Best Paper Award, and the SBUR Don Coffey Lectureship. Dr. Kwong is co-founder of Glympse Bio, which is developing a powerful new paradigm in diagnostics to enable noninvasive and predictive monitoring of multiple human diseases. He holds 20+ issued or pending patents in biomedical technology.