Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, 2008-present
Visiting Scientist/Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Materials Research & Engineering (Singapore), 1998-2003
Assistant/Associate Professor, 1990-1998
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University (China), 1990
B.E. in Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology (China), 1985
Honors and Awards
Excellent Supervisor Award, Dept. of Chemical Engineering of Tsinghua University (China), 1995
2nd Award, National Science and Technology Progress, National Science and Technology Committee (China), 1993
1st Award, Science and Technology Progress, National Education Committee (China), 1992
3rd Award, Science and Technology Progress of Jiangsu Province (China), 1991
High Profit Award, Science and Technology Achievements of Tsinghua University (China), 1991
Professional Activities
Member, MRS (Singapore), 1998-Present
Member, MRS (USA), 2008-present
Member, American Chemical Society 2005-present
Committee Member of MRS (Singapore), 2008-present
Chair, Symposium C: Delivery of Therapeutics for Cancer Therapy: New Challenges for Materials, International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies, Singapore, June 28-July 3, 2009
Co-Chair for Nanomedicine Workshop, Singapore, October 22-25, 2008
IBN's Series Seminar Organizer for overseas invited speakers and IBN's principle investigators, 2008 to present
Technical Program Committee Member of 1st NanoToday Conference 2009.
Chair, Symposium A: Advanced Functional Biomaterials, International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (Singapore), July 1-6, 2007
Local Organizing Committee and Session Chair of Drug Delivery, 3rd SBE International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore, August 12-15, 2007
Organizing Committee Member, 9th International Symposium by Chinese Organic Chemists and 6th International Symposium by Chinese Inorganic Chemists, Singapore, December 17-21, 2006
Co-Chair, Session of Nanoparticles, Colloids and Interfaces in Pharmaceuticals and Drug Delivery Applications, 79th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium (USA), June 12-15, 2005
Session Chair of Biomaterials and Drug Delivery, 1st International Bioengineering Conference (IBEC) and 6th Annual NTU-SGH Biomedical Engineering Symposium, Singapore, September 8-10, 2004
Local Organizing Committee and Session Chair of Delivery of Drugs and Genes, 1st SBE International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore, September 26-29, 2004
Chair, Symposium A: Advances in Biomaterials, International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (Singapore), December 7-12, 2003
Research Interests
Drug/gene delivery, cancer therapy, cell grafting, biomaterials
