Jun Wu
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Biography
Dr Jun Wu earned his BS, MS, and PhD degrees from Nanjing University, SUNY Stony Brook, and Cornell University, respectively. From 2010 to 2015, he collaborated with Professors Robert Langer and Omid Farokhzad as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and MIT. In 2015, he was promoted to Instructor at HMS. Following this, Dr Wu held the position of Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University from 2015 to 2022. Since 2022, he has been an Associate Professor in the Bioscience and Biomedical Engineering Thrust at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), while also serving as an affiliated Associate Professor in the Division of Life Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Dr Wu's research focuses on the development of functional and self-therapeutic biomaterials, including polymers and small molecules, designed to serve as drug carriers and tissue engineering scaffolds. His work aims to address critical health challenges, including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, bone regeneration, and skin repair.
RSC affiliations
Associate editors, Materials Advances
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