Gene Delivery (Biomaterial Engineering) - Hardcover

Xuesi Chen Prof. Chen is currently a professor at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS, Jilin, China. Prof. Chen was born in 1959 in Changchun, China. He obtained his bachelor's degree from the Department of Chemistry at Jilin University in 1982; master’s degree from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in 1988; and doctoral degree from Waseda University in 1997 (supervised by Hiroyuki Nishide). After postdoctoral study at the University of Pennsylvania, he joined the faculty at CIAC as a professor in 1999. In 2009, he was made the vice director of the academic committee of Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, CAS. In 2004, he was supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China. In 2012, he was made the vice director of the academic committee of CIAC, CAS. In 2013, he was the recipient of the “Ten-thousand Talents Program” and the Science and Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talents. In 2016, he was elected to be the Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering. In 2019, he was elected to be the academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Chen’s research interests include synthesis of Schiff base catalysts for ring-opening polymerization of lactides, preparation of biodegradable polymers for biomedical applications such as bone fracture repair, drug and gene carriers, hydrogels, and industrialization of polylactide (PLA) as greenplastics. He has authored or co-authored more than 800 papers with an H-index of 99 (total citations more than 37,000 times). He is also the holder or coholder of more than 310 Chinese invention patents and 1 US-authorized patent. Currently, Prof. Chen is board member of Advanced Healthcare Materials, the Journal of the Controlled Release, Biomacromolecules, and Acta Biomaterialia, among others.