William Liang Hwang MD PhD

Gastrointestinal Cancer

Resident Physician

Massachusetts General Hospital55 Fruit St.Boston, MA 02114
Phone+1 617-726-5820

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Education & Training

Mass General Brigham/Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolResidency, Radiation Oncology, 2016 - 2020
Mass General Brigham/Massachusetts General HospitalInternship, Internal Medicine, 2015 - 2016
Harvard Medical SchoolClass of 2015, MD, Summa cum laude
Harvard UniversityPhD, Biophysics, 2010 - 2013
University of OxfordMSc, Chemistry, Rhodes Scholar, 2006 - 2008

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Certifications & Licensure

MA State Medical License 2018 - 2026
American Board of Radiology Radiation Oncology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Merit Award (ASCO Annual Meeting) Conquer Cancer Foundation/American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2020
Young Investigator Award Conquer Cancer Foundation/American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2019
Resident Poster Viewing Recognition Award American Society for Radiation Oncology, 2019

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Twist1 overexpression models an aggressive subtype of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in vivo.
Muhammad Ajmal Khan, Jinhee Chang, Yang Song, Amol C Shetty, Triet Nguyen
Lab Animal. 2026-08-01
Distinct Malignant Cell States and Myeloid Glutamate Signaling Associated with Aggressive Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors.
Jeanna M Arbesfeld-Qiu, Jae-Won Cho, Phuong T T Nguyen, Nicole A Lester, Jennifer Su
Clinical Cancer Research. 2026-06-15
GLIS3 marks a neural-like progenitor cell state that drives metastasis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Dennis Gong, Jimmy A Guo, Jennifer Su, Sueda Cetinkaya, Connor Hennessey
Cell Reports. 2026-05-26

Press Mentions

22 Health Care Predictions for 2025 from Medical ResearchersDecember 31st, 2024
Study Reveals How Cancer Immunotherapy Leads to Deadly Form of Heart Inflammation in Some PatientsNovember 6th, 2024
Hopper-Belmont Foundation Grants Awarded to Pancreatic Cancer Research PioneersNovember 17th, 2020

Grant Support

Elucidating cancer-intrinsic mechanisms of perineural invasion in pancreatic cancerMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2022–2027
Radiotherapy-Mediated Reprogramming of the Immune Ecosystem in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma at Single-Cell ResolutionYoung Investigator Award, Conquer Cancer Foundation/American Society of Clinical Oncology2019–Present