Ma-Li Wong

Ma-Li Wong was an Australian researcher in the fields of psychiatry and pharmacogenomics, with a particular focus on major depression. She is head of the Pharmacogenomics Research Program in the Mind and Brain Theme at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, as well as Strategic Professor of Psychiatry at Flinders University.[1]

Born in Hong Kong, Wong was raised in Brazil. She lived in the United States for over 25 years, during which time she was trained in psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Yale University, among other places.[1] She is married to medical researcher Julio Licinio, with whom she has regularly collaborated on research since the 1980s.[2]