Dr. Jerry Fong joined the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in Medicine in July 2024. He graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis in 2013, majoring in biomedical engineering with a minor in computer science. His research focused on targeted drug delivery to tumors. He completed his Medical Scientist Training Program at Washington University, where he developed an algorithm to identify leukemia and lymphoma subclones from sequencing data. He received the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for his work. In 2021, he earned his combined doctorate of medicine and doctorate of philosophy in computational and systems biology. He completed his internal medicine internship and residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine.
Education
BS, Biomedical Engineering: Washington University, St. Louis, MO (2013)
Doctor of Medicine: Washington University, St. Louis, MO (2021)
Doctor of Philosophy: Washington University, St. Louis, MO (2021)
Residency, Internal Medicine: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO (2024)
Clinical Interests
Hospital medicine, accountable care, healthcare systems, promoting improved communication among providers and patients, including in the palliative setting
Research Interests
Leukeumia and lymphoma, targeted drug delivery for cancer using peptide-nanopraticle conjugates, radioactive effects of valproic acid and radiosensitization of glioma
Publications
Fong, Jerry; Gardner, Jacob; Andrews, Jared; Cashen, Amanda; Payton, Jacqueline; Weinberger, Kilian; Edwards, John. “Determining subpopulation methylation profiles from bisulfite sequencing data of heterogeneous samples using DXM.” Manuscript at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34157105/. Code available at https://github.com/edwardslab-wustl/dxm
Abstracts
Fong J, Gardner JR, Cashen AF, Weinberger KQ, Payton JE, and Edwards JR. “A Novel Method to Identify Epigenetic Subclones with Increased Fitness from Genomic DNA Methylation Data of Lymphoma and Leukemia Patients.” Proceedings: American Society of Hematology Annual
Meeting 2018 – Dec 1-4, 2018; San Diego, CA
Sweeney K, Bhave S, Hu R, Fong J, Hallahan DE, Thotala DK. “Valproic acid enhances radiation
therapy by protecting normal hippocampal neurons and sensitizing malignant glioblastoma
cells.” Proceedings: AACR 103rd Annual Meeting 2012– Mar 31-Apr 4, 2012; Chicago, IL
Additional poster presentations
Joint American Association of Physicians, American Society of Clinical Investigators, and
American Physician Scientist Association Annual Meeting 2018.
National Human Genome Research Institute Meeting, 2017.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories Genome Informatics Conference, 2017.