Keynote speaker

Dr. Zhuang Liu is a Changjiang Distinguished professor at Soochow University in China. He received his BS degree from Peking University in 2004 and PhD degree from Stanford University in 2008. In 2009, Dr. Liu joined Institute Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) at Soochow University. Dr. Liu is now working in the field of biomaterials and nanomedicine, to develop smart materials and nanotechnology for biomedical imaging and cancer therapy. Dr. Liu has authored over 400 peer-reviewed papers, with a total citation of > 80,000 times and an H-index at 160. He has been listed as one of ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ (Materials, Chemistry) by Thomson Reuters since 2015. He was invited to be the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2015, and elected to be the Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 2019. The awards he received include the Xplorer Prize, Periodic Table of Younger Chemists by IUPAC, Biomaterials Science Lectureship by RSC, National Distinguished Young Scholar Award (Fund) by NSFC, etc. Now he is serving as an associate editor for Biomaterials. He has founded a start-up company, InnoBM, which is focused on the development of novel therapeutics for cancer immunotherapy.

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