MSE Colloquium: Yong Wang, Programmable hydrogels for drug delivery and regenerative medicine
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264 MacQuigg Labs
105 W. Woodruff Ave
Columbus, OH 43210
United States
Abstract
The field of materials science and engineering has evolved from the study of inert and passive materials to the design of adaptive and active materials that are particularly important to a variety of biomedical applications such as drug delivery, biological separation, and regenerative medicine. Different from active materials that are responsive to physical stimuli such as ultrasound, temperature, and electricity, the materials we are developing are able to communicate with environment that has nucleic acids or signaling molecules. In this talk, I will use protein drug delivery to illustrate how we develop programmable hydrogels using principles of aptamer-based biomolecular recognition and also to introduce great potential of these novel programmable hydrogels for regenerative medicine.
Bio
Dr. Wang got his B.S. degree in Environmental Chemistry and M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering in China. He pursued his Ph.D. education at the Duke Biomedical Engineering Department, studying viral gene delivery for cancer therapy. Afterwards, Dr. Wang worked at Duke University Medical Center, studying the delivery of small interference RNA for cancer therapy.
Dr. Wang joined the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the University of Connecticut in August 2006. Since then, his research has been focused on programmable biomaterials. His research has been continuously funded by NSF. He has gotten 7 NSF awards including a CAREER Award and a CREATIV Award in 2010 and 2012, respectively. Dr. Wang was promoted to associate professor for early tenure in August 2011 and he moved from UConn to Penn State in January 2013 (with tenure). His papers have been published in prestigious journals such as Nature biotechnology, JACS, Angewandte Chemie, Biomaterials, etc and his research has been highlighted by international journals and news media such as Trends in biotechnology, C&EN, and RSC’s Chemistry World magazine.