Föreläsningar och seminarier IMM seminar with Yuliang Zhao, Distinguished Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China
Toxicological Mechanisms of Advanced Nanomaterials/Nanoparticles for Drug/Gene/Vaccine Delivery
Speaker: Prof. Yuliang Zhao, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, National Center for Nanosciences and Technology (NCNST), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China
Host: Prof. Bengt Fadeel, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
Presentation of speaker
Dr. Yuliang Zhao is a Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Director of the CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, Beijing, China. He is the past Director-General of the National Center for Nanosciences and Technology (NCNST) (2008-2023). He is a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and President of the Chinese Society for Biomaterials, etc.
Research contributions: Prof. Zhao is a pioneer in the field of nanotoxicology, having proposed the toxicological study of engineered nanomaterials and established the first research laboratory world-wide devoted to this topic in 2001. He focuses on toxicological effects and biomedical functions of nanomaterials, discovering crucial factors of advanced materials at the nanoscale to determine the toxicological effects or medical functions, and their biochemical mechanisms. The analytical methods his team has established have been used as ISO standards and are adopted in 168 ISO/IEC member countries. His work further established a set of regulatory tools for China FDA in safety evaluations of new drug approvals, and he established a nanosafety assessment framework for occupational exposure to nanomaterials. He has also made significant contributions to the development of nanomedicines for cancer therapeutics.
Prof. Zhao has been authorized 132 patents by China, USA, EU, and Japan, and he has published ~660 peer-reviewed scientific papers with ~90,000 citations, and 13 books (3 in English and 10 in Chinese), which have contributed greatly to systematizing the knowledge framework for nanotoxicology.
Prof. Zhao has received numerous national and international awards including The Beijing Prize for Science and Technology (2008), and The National Prize of Natural Sciences (2012 and 2018).