Biomaterials Science, Materials Horizons and Journal of Materials Chemistry B were pleased to support the recent Bioceramics34 conference which was held from 18 – 21 October 2024 in Shanghai, China. We were pleased to sponsor 7 Young Scientist Awards for the best presentations. Please join us in congratulating our winners and find out about some of them below!
Siyu Chen received her Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Prof. Xingdong Zhang in National Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials (NEBM), Sichuan University. She is now currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in West China Hospital. Her research focuses on biomaterials and implantable medical devices for musculoskeletal system, including calcium phosphate based-bioceramics, functionalized implants for diseased bone repair (i.e., osteoporosis, osteosarcoma), and cellular interaction between host and implant. Siyu received an award sponsored by Biomaterials Science for her talk entitled ‘Biomimetic conch-shell structural (Mn, Co) co-doped piezoelectric scaffolds for anti-tumor therapy and bone regeneration’
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Hang Ping received his PhD degree in materials processing engineering (2017) from the Wuhan University of Technology. He is currently a professor in Wuhan University of Technology. His research interests mainly focus on bioprocessing-inspired synthesis and fabrication. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers as coauthors, authorized 6 invention patents in China, and hosted 3 projects from national natural science foundation of China.Hang received an award sponsored by Materials Horizons for his talk entitled ‘Bioprocessing-inspired intrafibrillar collagen mineralization with megapascal contractile prestresses’
 Jan Grzelak was born in 1993 in Warsaw, Poland. He obtained his bachelor´s (B.Sc.) and master´s degrees (M.Sc.) in Nanostructure Engineering from University of Warsaw. In 2017, he was granted a “la Caixa” INPhINIT Fellowship to pursue a PhD degree in Materials Science at Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), under the supervision of Prof. Anna Roig Serra and Dr. Martí Gich Garcia, in the Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites Group. In October 2021, he obtained his PhD with Cum Laude qualification for his doctoral thesis entitled “Magnetic and fluorescent mesoporous silica nanorods towards liver theranostic uses”. Later, he pursued an additional master’s degree in Biomedicine at the University of Barcelona. In January 2023, he started working as a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project “Bio-inspired AntiMicrobial Bone Bioceramics: Deciphering contact-based biocidal mechanisms” (BAMBBI) in the research line of Biomaterials for Bone Regeneration led by Prof. Maria Pau Ginebra at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), where he works on the development of calcium phosphate surfaces with tailored nanotopographies.
Jan was awarded a prize sponsored by Biomaterials Science for his talk entitled ‘Tailoring high-aspect-ratio antimicrobial calcium phosphate nanotopographies: Effect of processing parameters’ |
Dr. Zhibo Yang obtained his Bachelor’s degree from Shandong University in 2019 and subsequently earned his PhD from the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences （SICCAS）, in 2024. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at SICCAS.Dr. Yang’s research is centred on the design and functional preparation of bioinspired biomaterials, with a particular emphasis on the development of flexible bioceramic-based materials for bone regeneration applications. His innovative work has led to the publication of eight papers in journals such as Matter and Biofabrication. Additionally, he has filed two Chinese national invention patents. He’s won the Silver Award at the 2022 TERMIS-AP Virtual Student Paper Contest and the Young Scientist Award at the 34th Conference and Annual Meeting of the International Society for Ceramics in Medicine. Zhibo was awarded a prize sponsored by Biomaterials Science for his talk entitled ‘Naturally Derived Flexible Bioceramics for flat bones regeneration’ |
Song Chen is an associate professor at Soochow University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree from Uppsala University, Sweden in 2016. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and in Konstanz University in Germany. In 2019, he joined Orthopaedic Institute of Soochow University. He is interested in biomineralization and bioceramics. His research aims to advance understanding of the natural biomineralization processes, such as those involved in the formation of bone and teeth. Drawing inspiration by these natural strategies, he works on designing and fabricating advanced bioceramics for applications in orthopedics, dentistry, and tissue engineering. Song was awarded a prize sponsored by Materials Horizons for his talk.
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