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Dr. Sijie Chen was Assistant Professor at Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine between 2017 and 2023.

Dr. Sijie Chen received her BSc in Biology from Wuhan University in 2009 and PhD in Bioengineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2013, under the supervision of Prof Ben Zhong Tang. She worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in HKUST and then as an Endeavour Fellow in University of Melbourne and a visiting scientist in Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. She joined Prof Ana Teixeira’s group as a Postdoc in the Division of Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics in ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ (KI) since late 2015.

Dr. Chen was earlier working on fluorescent biosensors, fluorescence imaging and nanomaterials. She has published 55 scientific papers, more than ten of which were published after she joined MWLC and with the Centre’s support.

Dr. Linxian Li is a bio̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ engineer with interdisciplinary expertise in organic chemistry, molecular biology, materials science, and bioengineering. He was Assistant Professor at Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine between 2017 and 2023.

After obtaining his PhD degree at Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg in Germany, he pursued postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Committed to translate new materials for ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ use, he focuses on developing biomaterials to deliver RNA therapeutics and engineering biointerfaces to control cell behavior. His work has resulted in over 20 publications including papers, patents and patent applications. These patents have been licensed to chemical and biotechnology companies, and several products that have been commercialized.

Zongli Zheng was Assistant Professor at Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine between 2017 and 2023.

Dr. Zheng received his PhD degree in ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ epidemiology from ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ in 2011 and completed a postdoctoral training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in 2015, with support from the Swedish Research Council International Postdoc Fellowship.

Dr. Dong-An Wang has been appointed Foreign Adjunct Professor at the Department of Neuroscience during 2024-2026. He is a Professor at the Department of Bio̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Engineering in Chinese University of Hong Kong.

He is a Professor of Department of Bio̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Engineering in Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and he received his B.S. and Ph.D. from Zhejiang University, China. Dong-An Wang was a postdoctoral fellow, in turn, at University of Tennessee Health Science Centre and Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Since joining Nanyang Technological University in 2005, Singapore, Dr. Wang had been appointed, in turn, as an Assistant Professor and an Associate Professor in School of Chemical & Bio̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Engineering. As a Professor of Bio̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Engineering, Dr. Wang worked in City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) from 2018 to 2024 and joined CUHK since 2024.

Dr. Wang used to be Associate Chair (2010~2014) of School of Chemical and Bio̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Engineering, Nanyang Technological University Singapore; Acting Head (2022~2023) of Department of Bio̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Engineering, City University of Hong Kong; and, Head of Research (2020~2023) at ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine Hong Kong.