TUONG Kelvin

Biography

Dr Kelvin Tuong completed his undergraduate Bachelor’s degree in biomedical science with First Class Honours, followed by a Ph.D. in macrophage cell biology and endocrinology at The University of Queensland, Australia. He undertook his post‑doctoral fellowship with Professor Ian Frazer at the Frazer Institute, Translational Research Institute, before moving to the United Kingdom to work with Professor Menna Clatworthy at the University of Cambridge and Professor Sarah Teichmann at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Dr Tuong is currently an Associate Professor, an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, and serves as Deputy Director and Group Leader at the Ian Frazer Centre for Children’s Immunotherapy Research, within the Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland.

His research group focuses on understanding how paediatric immunity is disrupted during cancer at the cellular level, and on leveraging these insights to translate high‑resolution immune profiling into novel diagnostic and prognostic systems for children with cancer. Notably, Dr Tuong developed Dandelion, a bespoke bioinformatics software tool for single‑cell B‑cell receptor sequencing analysis, which was applied in one of the world’s largest integrated datasets combining single‑cell transcriptomics, surface proteomics, and TCR/BCR sequencing.

Research Focus

• Pediatric Immunity
• Computational Immunology

PUBLICATIONS

Google Scholar - Zewen Kelvin TUONG

ORCID - Zewen Kelvin TUONG