【Academic Forum】Overcoming Systemic Barriers for Precise Drug/Gene Delivery

Topic: Overcoming Systemic Barriers for Precise Drug/Gene Delivery

Lecturer: Yin Lichen, professor and doctoral supervisor, Suzhou University

Host: Tang Haoyu, professor of College of Chemistry, Xiangtan University

Time: 10 AM, October 27^th, 2017

Venue: No.1 Terraced Classroom of the Shaw Building

Yin Li Chen, male, obtained a bachelor's degree in biological sciences from Fudan University in July 2005 and a doctor’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from Fudan University in July 2010.

From November 2010 to January 2014, he was engaged in postdoctoral research at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). In January 2014, he was hired as a distinguished professor and doctoral supervisor after joining the Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University. 

His main research areas include the development of biomedical polymers and drug carriers as well as its application in anti-tumor and anti-inflammatory treatment. He has published more than 70 SCI papers, of which more than 40 were published in the well reputed periodicals of biomaterials such as Nat Chem Biol, Nat Commun, PNAS, Angew Chem Int Ed, Adv Mater, ACS Nano, and, Biomaterials. His papers have been cited for more than 2,700 times with the h-index totaling 27. Many papers were covered by C & EN News, Materials View China, Fierce Drug Delivery and other media. He has edited an international monograph, won three Chinese invention patents, and two US patents. He has undertaken one project funded by the National Key Research and Development Program "Nano-special" and two projects by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Supported by the National Excellent Young Scientists Foundation, he was elected as "Distinguished Professor of Jiangsu Province" (Key Program). 

 

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