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Professor Yan Pang received her PhD degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2011. She worked as a Postdoctoral Associate from 2014 to 2015 at Duke university, and from 2016 to 2018 at MIT. She joined the School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2019. Her research interests focus on the design and construction of functional biomaterials and their applications in treating various diseases, especially ocular related diseases. |
Read Yan’s Emerging Investigator article, Nano-based ocular drug delivery systems: an insight into the preclinical/clinical studies and their potential in the treatment of posterior ocular diseases, DOI: D3BM00505D.
Check out our interview with Yan below:
How do you feel about Biomaterials Science as a place to publish research on this topic?
Biomaterials Science is an ideal journal to publish works related to biomaterials and their potential applications as well as future translations.
What aspect of your work are you most excited about at the moment and what do you find most challenging about your research?
Our most exciting aspect lies in constructing smart drug delivery systems for the treatment of ocular diseases based on biomaterials. As human eyes have many anatomical barriers to prevent therapeutic agents from reaching their targets, how to penetrate the ocular barriers and reach the lesion site is the most challenging thing.
In your opinion, what are the most important questions to be asked/answered in this field of research?
There are still many unknowns in this area and many questions that need to be answered, especially that how can we carry on research “from bedside to bench side, and then from bench side back to the bedside”, and to make the most use of biomaterials in the preclinical/clinical stage.
Can you share one piece of career-related advice or wisdom with other early career scientists?
I think it is very important to communicate and learn from the scientists in the same field or related fields to expand new knowledge and skills. And never give up when you encounter some difficulty.
