Dr Stephen Tong

Carl Wood Senior Lecturer

Centre for Women's Health Research

Dr Stephen Tong is a clinician scientist who works as a Consultant Obstetrician at the Monash Medical Centre. He is also a Carl Wood Senior Lecturer at Monash University, a prestigious title that commemorates Australia’s most widely known specialists in the field of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Dr Tong’s research interests are early pregnancy, biomarker research and clinical obstetrics. Funded under a current NHMRC project grant, he has been working with a team using cutting-edge proteomic technologies to identify novel blood biomarkers that could be used as a test in early pregnancy to predict the onset of obstetric diseases well before they occur.

Dr Tong is working in the Centre for Cancer Research in Professor Bryan Williams’ laboratory investigating ways of using gene knockdown technology (RNAi interference) to treat various human diseases with the hope of finding novel treatments that can be applied to clinical work.

In 2007 Dr Tong was awarded a prestigious NHMRC Achievement Award in addition to the two NHMRC grants he currently holds. Throughout his career he has obtained over $811,000 in competitive funding and has had two first authorship papers published in The Lancet (1997 and 2004), and one in Nature (2002). He has also published in most of the top ranked obstetrics and gynaecology journals.