Dr Hao-Wen Sim is a medical oncologist based at Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, The Kinghorn Cancer Centre and NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre. His sub-specialty and research interests are neuro-oncology and gastrointestinal oncology.

Dr Sim graduated from the University of Melbourne with Honours. After completing general medicine and medical oncology training in Melbourne, he pursued a three-year research fellowship at The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto under the supervision of Professor Warren Mason and Associate Professor Jennifer Knox.

Recent accomplishments include the NOYCIA Young Investigator Award, ASCO Merit Award and CAHON Young Investigator Award. He received the 2017 GUMOC-Astellas Research Grant and the Gastrointestinal Oncology Research Innovation Grant. Alongside this, he is undertaking a Master of Biostatistics through The University of Sydney for which he was recently awarded the 2017 Les Irwig General Epidemiology Award and Australasian Epidemiological Association Top Student Prize.

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