Ian Wong: a career focused on paediatric psychoactive drugs

Ian Wong, by his own admission, was never really interested in academic work at school while growing up in Hong Kong. But two things happened that give him an entirely different way of thinking: first, meeting his wife Lisa, after which he converted to Christianity, and second, his move to the UK, where he studied pharmacy in Sunderland, northeast England, and his love of the mechanisms of drug action began to flourish. “Why Sunderland, you might ask?” Wong tells The Lancet Psychiatry. “My family did not have much money and back then, it was the cheapest place to study pharmacy in the UK!”