Wong Lab

05/07/2021

There’s nothing like Thai food for impromptu lab celebrations 🎉 Happy birthday to our research fellow Jerry!

05/29/2020

We are excited and grateful to be a C-DOCTOR team!

The initiative aims to propel USC forward as the epicenter of tissue and organ regeneration research. THE STUDIES SEEM LIKE something straight out of science fiction. There’s one focused on using stem cells to regenerate skull bone for patients with skull defects. Another aims to develop a hydroge...

05/16/2020

COVID-19 and social distancing have impacted Wong Lab but will it will not stop our dedication to science nor will it prevent us from celebrating the successes of our laboratory and research fellows! Congratulations Anjali!

01/22/2020

Our Pre-clinical Animal Model of Secondary Head and Neck
Lymphedema

https://rdcu.be/b0DQW

12/21/2019

Holiday white elephant!

12/21/2019

at Roy’s

10/30/2019

Happy Halloween 🎃, congratulations to Roy on getting into medical school, And thanks to all lab members for your dedication and hard work!

09/08/2019

USC Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Welcome Party at the Urata estate!

04/25/2019

Lab + family dinner celebration! Wow what a big group! Congratulations to Giulia and Michael on completion of their research fellowships!

02/16/2019

Recent work from Wong Lab!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30648916

FGFR3 plays a key role in LEC proliferation, migration, tubule formation, and postnatal in vivo lymphangiogenesis when pharmacologically induced by 9-cisRA. P3 may have the potential to be used as a precise regulatory control element for 9-cisRA-mediated lymphangiogenesis.

12/16/2018

2018 Holiday Lunch and White Elephant Gift Exchange

08/28/2018

ADM in joint arthroplasty? Check it out!

outcomes. Recent human trials substituted exogenous acellular dermal matrices in the bone space, but there are no quantitative histologic data on the outcome of acellular dermal matrices in this environment. The authors aimed to quantify the revascularization and recellularization of acellular derma...

06/30/2018

Birthday = food + cake!

06/09/2018

Congratulations chief resident and intern .b.johnson for winning USC Surgery Resident Research Competition. USC Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Basic science award-
Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Isolated from Irradiated Human Skin have Diminished Capacity for Proliferation, Differentiation, Colony Formation, and Paracrine Stimulation.
Dr. Maxwell Johnson .b.johnson Mentor: Alex Wong, MD

Clinical Award - A Simple, Prognostic Severity Scale for Unilateral Cleft Lip Dr. Caroline Yao Mentor: William Magee, MD, DDS

06/04/2018

Farewell and Congratulations on their acceptances to medical school Cynthia and Tony! And welcome new Lab recruits!

05/24/2018

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ten.tea.2017.0119

Tissue Engineering Part AVol. 24, No. 7-8Original ArticlesPorcine Mesothelium-Wrapped Diced Cartilage Grafts for Nasal ReconstructionBramos Athanasios , MDPerrault David P. , BSFedenko Alexander N. , MD, PhDKim Gene H. , MDBougioukli Sofia , MDLieberman Jay R. , MDCalvert Jay W. , and MDWong Alex K....