Joan Wong, Ph.D.

Joan Wong earned her Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis, where she leveraged emerging sequencing technologies at the Genome Center to dissect the genetics of host-pathogen interactions. Her experience spans diverse biotech industries, including gut microbiome characterization for oral live therapeutics, agricultural biotechnology for modern crop breeding, and long-read metagenomic sequencing for environmental and human health applications. She joined CZ Biohub SF in March 2021 to build and lead a data science team focused on advancing analytical methods and tools for infectious disease research. In 2024, Wong took on leadership of Data Strategy, driving the establishment of unified data management across the Biohub Network to enable interoperability, multimodal data analysis, and AI-driven research.