William Ngo

Dr. William Ngo received his OD (2011) and PhD (2016) from the University of Waterloo School of Optometry & Vision Science, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alabama, Birmingham (2017-2019). Dr. Ngo then served as the Head of Biosciences at the Centre for Ocular Research & Education (2019-2021). Dr. Ngo aims to advance the understanding of human ocular surface disease using a combination of computational, wet-lab, and clinical techniques.

Currently accepting applications for PhDs and postdocs with backgrounds in cell or molecular biology.

• Human clinical testing related to the diagnosis and treatment of dry eye disease and meibomian gland dysfunction

• Cellular physiology and their response to stress and damage

• Discovery of drugs and biologics for modulating inflammation

• Drug Discovery, Design and Delivery

• Disease Detection and Modelling

• Bioinformatics, Systematics and Evolution

• Physiology, Cell and Developmental Biology

• Ocular Biology

• OD (Waterloo)

• PhD (Waterloo)

• OPTOM 103 - Pathophysiology
  • Taught in 2023, 2024, 2025
• OPTOM 105 - Medical Microbiology
  • Taught in 2023, 2024, 2025
• OPTOM 670 - Vision Science Part 1
  • Taught in 2024

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