Biography

Area of Expertise: nanoengineering.

Dr. Liangfang Zhang, Ph.D. is a distinguished scientist and Assistant Professor of Nanoengineering at the Nanoengineering Department and Moores Cancer Center at the University of California in San Diego. Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2006 under the supervision of Prof. Steve Granick. He was a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Prof. Robert Langer at MIT during 2006 to 2008. He joined the Department of Nanoengineering and Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego as Assistant Professor in July 2008. Dr. Zhang’s research interests focus on the design, synthesis, characterization and evaluation of nanostructured biomaterials for healthcare and other medical applications, particularly drug delivery to improve or enable treatments of human diseases. He has published approximately 40 peer-reviewed papers, holds 14 patents and has received the 2009 Victor K. LaMer Award from the American Chemical Society.