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Dr Rongjun Chen
Title
Senior Translational Research Fellow (Responsive Biomedical Materials for Drug Delivery )Phone
0113 3439102Address
Centre for Molecular Nanoscience
School of Chemistry
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
Research Interests
- Drug delivery;
- Cancer therapy;
- Biomaterials;
- Stimuli-responsive polymers;
- Virus production;
- Bioseparation;
- Lyophilisation;
About
- Visiting Academic Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge (10/2009-03/2010)
- Post-Doc with Professor Nigel K.H. Slater, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge (2006-09)
- PhD in Bioscience Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge (2003-07)
- MSc in Materials Science, Tsinghua University (2000-03)
- BSc in Applied Chemistry (With Highest Honour), Beijing Technology and Business University (1995-99)
The interests of Rongjun’s group lie in: the design and evaluation of biomaterials (e.g. stimuli-responsive polymers) and viral vectors for controlled, traceable and targeted drug delivery; the development of biomaterials (e.g. macroporous polymeric scaffolds) for bioproduction, bioseparation and tissue engineering applications; the study of the technology and underlining science in lyophilisation and cryopreservation to improve the long term stability of pharmaceuticals and living cells.
Collaboration
Previous collaborations include:
- Professor Nigel K.H. Slater, Dr Claudia Loechel – Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge;
- Dr Matthias Ediger – Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge;
- Professor Farzin Farzaneh, Professor Mahvash Tavassoli – Department of Haematological and Molecular Medicine, King’s College London;
- Professor Jian R. Lu – School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester;
- Dr Evgenyi Shalaev – Pfizer Inc.;
- Dr Vladimir Baulin – Departament d’Enginyeria Química, Universitat Rovira i Virgili.
