XJTU Biomedical Engineering and Biomechanics Center aims at advancing human health through academic excellence in education and research that integrates engineering, science biology and medicine. We educate outstanding minds, cultivate leaders, create knowledge, and generate cost-effective preventative, diagnostic, and therapeutic innovations. Conversely, it brings clinical insight from the patient’s bedside to the laboratory bench. In this way, our students are trained to carry their engineering and scientific expertise from the laboratory bench to the patient’s bedside and to bring clinical insights from the patient’s bedside to the laboratory bench; to have deep understanding of engineering, physical sciences, and the biological sciences, complemented with hands-on experience in the clinic or in industry; and they become conversant with the underlying quantitative and molecular aspects of medicine and biomedical science.

Faculties

1）Feng Xu 

Feng Xu received his B.S. in both Thermal & Power Engineering and Industry Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China in 2001.  He got his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2004.  In 2004, Feng Xu was awarded UK Overseas Research Studentship and Cambridge Overseas Trust Scholarship that took him to University of Cambridge. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering in 2008 from Cambridge. During 2008-2011, Dr. Xu worked as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School and Harvard-MIT Health Science & Technology (HST). Dr. Xu found the first interdisciplinary biomedical engineering center of Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU Bioinspired Engineering & Biomechanics Center) with Prof. TianJian Lu in 2007 and is the co-founding director of the center.  Currently, Dr. Xu is a full professor and vice dean at School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University.  He was also awarded for the China Young 1000-Talent Program, Shaanxi 100-Talent Program, and the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University.  In 2011, Dr. Xu is also selected as the Vice Chairman of International Cooperation Committee of Chinese Society of Mechanics.

Dr. Xu’s current research aims at advancing human health through academic excellence in education and research that integrates engineering, science biology and medicine with focus on Bio-thermo-mechanics, Engineering of Cell Microenvironment, and Point-of-Care Technologies. Dr. Xu has published more than 160 journal papers, 5 books, 10 book chapters, 120 conference papers/abstracts, together with more than 20 invited talks.  Total impact factor is more than 560 and the papers have been cited more than 2400 times, with H-index factor of 24.  He was invited as Special Issue Guest Editors for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A in 2009, and for Biotechnology Journal in 2011.  Dr. Xu serves an Associate Editor for Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics (JMIHI) and ASME Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine (JNEM), an Editor for Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (JMMB), Biofabrication, and Scientific Reports. Dr. Xu has also organized and co-chaired 4 international conference and workshops, and served as session chiars 10 times. 

2）Xiaohui Zhang

    Dr. Xiaohui Zhang received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Dalian University of Technology in 2001. She got her M.S. in Biochemical Engineering from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2004. In 2004, Xiaohui Zhang was awarded a full Graduate Scholarship from Tufts University, where she received her Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological, and Biotechnology Engineering in 2009. Since 2009, Dr. Zhang has worked as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School and Harvard-MIT Health Science & Technology (HST). 

    Dr. Zhang’s research has been focused on Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, Reproductive Medicine, and Cell Cryopreservation. She has published 25 peer-reviewed journal articles, 8 conference abstracts/papers, and applied for 6 patents. Her work has been published in journals such as Biomaterials, Lab on a Chip, Advanced Drug Delivery Review, Advanced Functional Materials, Nanomedicine, Small, and PLoS ONE. As of April 2013, she has been cited over 810 times, and has an H-index of 14, with a total impact factor over 120. Her first-authored paper published on Lab on a Chip (2011, 11, 2535-2340) was reviewed as a research highlight in Nature Photonics, with a title ‘Wide-Field Imaging: Sorting Sperm’. She also serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research as well as Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology.

3）Xin Zhao

    Dr. Xin Zhao received her BSc. in Bioengineering from South China Normal University, China, in 2005. She got her MSc with Distinction in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London, UK in 2006 and PhD in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering from University College London, UK in 2010. She was awarded the prestigious Dorothy Hodgkins Postgraduate Award from the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) and Central Research Fund from University of London to support her graduate study. From 2012-2015, Dr. Zhao worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University, Harvard-MIT Health Science & Technology (HST) under supervision of Prof. Ali Khademhosseini and School of Engineering of Applied Sciences (SEAS) under supervision of Prof. David Weitz.  She is now appointed as an associate professor at China’s leading university, Xian Jiaotong University.   

    Dr. Zhao’s research focuses on Biomaterials for Translational Regenerative Medicine. To address practical clinical problems, she works extensively with medical doctors from Eastman Dental Institute from UK, Mass General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital from US, and the affiliated hospitals from Shanghai Jiaotong University and Xian Jiaotong University. She has lead or participated in several cutting-edge multi-disciplinary research projects bridging biomaterials and medicine. These include "tumor tissue-sensitive drug carriers" funded by National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), "injectable and degradable bone cement" funded by UK EPSRC, "photo-crosslinkable hydrogel platforms for construction of artificial skin" funded by US Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) and  "microfluidics assisted construction of human mesenchymal stem cell laden hydrogel microspheres and their in vitro and in vivo osteogenic potential" funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) of US.

    So far, she has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and applied for 1 national patent. Her work has been published in leading journals of the biomaterials field such as Advanced Functional Materials, Materials Today, Biomaterials, Small, Advanced Healthcare Materials, Acta Biomaterialia, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, etc, with one selected as the journal cover for Small and two for Journal of Materials Chemistry B. She also serves as a reviewer for Acta Biomaterialia and a guest editor for Plastic and Aesthetic Research.

4）Fei Li 

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, School of Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong University.

Dr Fei Li obtained her BSc in Chemistry at Northwest University in 2001 and MS degree in Electroanalytical Chemistry at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2004. After receiving the full scholarship of “Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards” and “Oversea Student Scholorship (ORS)” from the British government, she went to the United Kingdom for her doctorate study and got her Ph.D degree in Electrochemistry at the University of Warwick in 2008. Then she worked as a post-doctor in Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and Temple University in U.S.A., respectively. She joined in the department of Chemistry at the School of Sciences and BEBC of Xi’an Jiaotong University from 2011 till now.

Dr Fei Li has more than 11 years research experience in electroanalytical field and her main research field is to study various interfacial reactions, including spectro-electrochemical processes, nano-materials catalysis and biological system electrochemical reactions, using electrochemical methods and micro/nano-fabrication techniques. One of her present main researches is to fabricate and evaluate soft materials by new electrochemical techniques with high-resolution microscopy and nanoscopic probes. She has published more than 20 papers in international leading journals, such as Angew Chem Int Ed、 J Am Chem Soc、Adv Funct Mater、Electrochem Commun etc. And she has received several research funds from government and university, including one fund from the “National Science Fund for Distinguished Yong Scholars”, one fund from the “Science and Technology Planning Project of Shannxi Province” and three funds from “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities”.

5）Guorui Jin

Associate Professor,  School of Life Science & Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong  University.

Dr. Guorui Jin received his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from  Harbin Institute of Technology in 2009. He got his Ph.D. in mechanics in 2013 from the National University of Singapore. During 2013-2015, Dr. Jin worked as a postdoctor at Institute of Materials Research and Engineering,Singapore. He joined in the School of Life Science &Technology and BEBC of Xi’an Jiaotong University from 2015 till now.

Dr.Guorui Jin’s main research interests are focusing on three aspects:1. Developing fluorescence nanoparticles with stable lunminescence property for long time tracing of stem cells in vivo;2. Developing anticancer platform with function of both diagnose and treat; 3. Synthetizing bio-inspired nanofiber and Appling it into study of regenerative medicine.

6）Min Lin

    Dr. Min Lin achieved B.S. degree (2005) in Material Science and Engineering from Hefei University of Technology and M.S. degree (2008) in Material Science and Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University. Dr. Lin completed his Ph.D. degree at Biomedical Engineering and Biomechanics Center in Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2011. He joined the faculty of Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2011 and was promoted as an Associate Professor in 2016. During 2014-2015, Dr. Lin worked as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.

    Dr. Lin’s current research is focused on biomaterials/nanomaterials synthesis (e.g., upconversion nanoparticles) and biomedical applications such as gene/drug delivery and point-of-care diagnosis.  Dr. Lin has won a “Natural Science Award”, which is a nationwide award granted by the Government of China. Dr. Lin also won “Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award” granted by the Education Department of Shaanxi Provincial Government. Dr. Lin has published more than 30 journal papers, 2 books, 2 book chapters, 12 conference papers/abstracts. 5 papers were highlighted as cover/back cover in high-profile internal journals. The papers have been cited more than 440 times, with h-index factor of 12. Dr. Lin has been invited to serve as Editorial Board Member for several international journals including Scientific Reports, Journal of Biomedical Engineering & Bioinformatics and Science Proceedings. He works as reviewer for several international journals.

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