Who are we
We are an interdisciplinary team of engineers, chemists and biologists
taking inspiration from the nature to engineer versatile (nano)materials
and to create innovative drug delivery platform
for biomedical applications.
taking inspiration from the nature to engineer versatile (nano)materials
and to create innovative drug delivery platform
for biomedical applications.
What's new?
9 August 2024 Congratulations to Mehrnoosh for receiving the CBE Best TA award! 
25 June 2024 Congratulations to Mehrnoosh for receiving the HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award! 2 May 2024 Congratulations to freeze for selecting her article "Construction of multiphasic membraneless organelles towards spontaneous spatial segregation and directional flow of biochemical reactions" as one of the "2023 most popular polymer and supramolecular chemistry articles" by RCS 
14 July 2023 Congratulations to Kalindu for receiving the CBE Best TA award! 
29 April 2023 Congratulations to Prof. Chau and the team for winning Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury at 48th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva, Switzerland ! Learn more 
28 Sept 2022 Congratulations to Melody for receiving Special student award in Rohto Awards 2022 
4 Aug 2022 Congratulations to Melody for receiving the CBE Best TA award! 
20 June 2022 Congratulations to Melody for wining the BIEN PG Award for Excellent Research. 
31 May 2022 Atta Chang- Second Runner-up , 2022 Mr Armin and Mrs Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award 
6 April 2022 NEW PUBLICATION from Jianhui and Freeze on "Nucleic Acids Modulate Liquidity and Dynamics of Artificial Membraneless Organelles" Learn more |
14 July 2023 Melody's article "Vaccine delivery by zwitterionic polysaccharide based hydrogel microparticles showing enhanced immunogenicity and suppressed foreign body responses" was featured in RSC Biomaterials Science 
28 April 2023 Congratulations to Jessica for receiving the second runner up award for her UROP project ! 
23 Aug 2022 Congratulations to our alumnus Dr. Weiping Wang, assistant Professor at the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy at HKU for winning the China’s Excellent Young Scientists Fund 2022 award (中國國家自然科學基金2022年度優秀青年科學家). 
30 July 2022 NEW PUBLICATION from Mary on "Fusogenic peptide modification to enhance gene delivery by peptide-DNA nano-coassemblies" Learn more 
19 November 2021 Congratulations to Prof. Chau for being selected as Leading Woman in STEM, 2021 American Chamber of Commerce and Women of Influence Awards 
26 May 2022 
July 2022 Leo has passed his MSc. exam. |
8 June 2023 Congratulations to Laurance, Melody and AIMGEL team for wining the platinum award (champions) and GF Innovation award at HKUST-SINO ONE MILLION DOLLAR entrepreneurship competition 2023 
25 Jan 2023 Freeze's article "Construction of multiphasic membraneless organelles towards spontaneous spatial segregation and directional flow of biochemical reactions" was featured in RSC Chemical Science 
5 Aug 2022 NEW PUBLICATION from Ghodsieh & Laurence on "Stochastic lattice based-modelling of macromolecule release from degradable hydrogel" Learn more 
15 July 2022 Jianhui's article "Minimalist design of mimetic of intrinsic disordered protein" was featured in ACS Central Science 
7 June 2022 NEW PUBLICATION from Mary and Atta on "mRNA delivery and storage by co-assembling nanostructures with designer oligopeptides" Learn more 
30 May 2022 Atta, Sophia, Sandy and Dawn- CBE Best FYP Award, 2022 
21 March 2022 NEW PUBLICATION from Jianhui and Freeze on "Minimalist design of intrinsically disordered protein-mimicking scaffold for artificial membraneless organelle" 
14 Jan 2022 Melody and Laurence and Freeze- Champion of 2022 HKSTP Hong Kong Techathon (Humanities and Health Tech) Learn more |
31 May 2022
Melody- HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award, 2022
