Dr. Tong got his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He has training in protein nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. He was a principal investigator at the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) Toronto before he joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Windsor.

Dr. Tong's lab research interests lie in Ubiquitin biology and cell signaling, protein engineering, structure-function relationship, and drug discovery.

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), WE-SPARK Igniting Discovery