Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
University of Minnesota, Minnesota, United States
Prof. Chun Wang is on the faculty of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, and directs the Polymeric Biomaterials Lab at Minnesota (http://biomaterials.umn.edu). His past and current research covers a broad range of topics, including polymeric hydrogels, micelles, nanoparticles, biointerfaces, stimuli-responsive and biodegradable polymers for controlled release and drug delivery. He has published over 100 research articles and reviews and given over 130 invited talks. He served on the editorial board of the Journal of Controlled Release (2006-2016) and is currently on the boards of Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, Pharmaceutics, and Frontiers in Biomaterials Science as the Specialty Chief Editor for Delivery Systems and Controlled Release. He was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, a Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Early Career Translational Research Award, and the UMN McKnight Land-Grant Professorship. He is an inventor of multiple issued and pending patents and has co-founded Trekka Therapeutics, a startup company developing next-generation healthcare products. He received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah and was an NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Tech Session VI: Nanomedicine and Nanoscale Delivery (Focus: Skin / Mucosal)
Thursday, July 17, 2025
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM EDT
