Biomaterials and Nanotechnology for Drug and Vaccine Development
B.S. University of California, Berkeley (Biomedical Engineering)
Ph.D. University of California, San Diego (Bioengineering)
Advances in bionanotechnology and cargo-carrying nanocarriers enable existing therapeutics to be reformulated to attain higher potency and safety. Nanotechnology in medicine has shown tremendous value in drug delivery and vaccine preparations, where pharmacokinetics and immune activation can be finely tuned via rational nanomaterials engineering. The research focus of the laboratory is to develop novel therapeutic nanomaterials with an emphasis toward clinical translation. By examining and tackling the interface between materials and biology, we seek to adopt an engineering approach to improve treatments for major diseases including cardiovascular disease, cancer, and infectious disease.
2019 Excellent Young Investigator Award—Taiwan Biomaterials and Controlled Releases Society
2017 Futuristic Breakthrough Technology Award by Ministry of Science and Technology.
2016 4th Annual Excellence in Creativity Award for Young Scholar
2016 Member of the Global Young Academy
2016 Recipient of the Academia Sinica Career Development Award
2014 Selected participant of the 64th Meeting of Nobel Laureates
2013 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Scholar Award, UCSD 2013
2011 Siebel Scholar, Class of 2012
2010 Best poster award at the 8th NanoDDS
2004 Guidant Undergraduate Research Fellowship