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Prof. Giuseppe Battaglia, Editorial Board member 
Giuseppe, or as most people call him, Beppe, obtained his “Laura” in Chemical Engineering in 2001 from the University of Palermo (Italy), followed by a period of industrial research at the ICI Strategic Technology Group (now part of AkzoNobel) at Wilton, UK. In 2002, he joined Prof. Anthony Ryan’s research group for a PhD in Physical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Sheffield (UoS). In 2006 immediately after submitting his PhD thesis, Beppe was appointed to a fixed term lectureship within the Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering group in the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering. 3 years later he relocated to a permanent position within the Department of Biomedical Science where he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2009 and to a Personal Chair in 2011. Beppe is now the Professor of Synthetic Biology and one of the youngest professor in the Univerisity. Beppe is the recipient of the prestigious Human Frontiers of Science Young Investigator Program together with Prof. A. Engler (UCSD) and the 2011 ERC STG Award as well as the 2011 APS/IoP Polymer Physics Exchange Lecture and the 2011 GSK Emerging Scientist Award. Beppe’s research is focused on the investigation of the specific design rules behind inter/intramolecular interactions and self-assembly of soft matter systems often taking inspiration from biological systems such as cells and viruses. These are subsequently translated into the engineering of nanostructured biomaterials such as nanoscopic vectors and/or synthetic scaffolds.

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Jun Wang, Editorial Board member
Jun Wang received a joint B.S. in Chemistry and Cell Biology at Wuhan University in 1993 in China and a Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry and Physics from Wuhan University in 1999. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins Singapore and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1999 to 2004. In 2004 he joined the faculty of University of Science and Technology of China as a professor of Life Sciences and Polymer Chemistry. He is a joint professor of Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale of China. He received the Capsugel Innovation Award in Controlled Drug Delivery from the Controlled Release Society in 2001. He was selected as the awardee of “One Hundred Talents” of Chinese Academy of Science in 2005 and received “Outstanding Young Scholar Award” of National Science Foundation of China in 2011. His main research interest is biomaterials for drug, siRNA delivery and nanomedicine.

Mark Bradley, Editorial Board member
Mark received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1989 under the supervision of Professor Sir Jack Baldwin, followed by post-doctoral studies at Harvard Medical School and returned to the UK as a Royal Society Fellow at Southampton University in the early 90’s. In 1996 at the age of 34 he was made a Professor of Combinatorial Chemistry. He has been elected to fellowships of both the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has held the Novartis Young Investigator Award, the Zeneca Research Award for Organic Chemistry, the GlaxoWellcome Award for Innovative Chemistry, the Pfizer Award in Organic chemistry and more recently, the Novartis Chemistry Lectureship and the Award from the Society of Combinatorial Sciences. In 2011 he was awarded the Chancellors Award for research. His group has published over 240 peer reviewed papers and 20 patents and more than 65 PhD students have graduated from his group.

Three themes dominate at this time:
(i). The development and exploitation of polymer microarray technology for the identification and application of polymers for controlling and modulating cells.
(ii). The development of “smart” fluorescent reporters for clinical optical imaging.
(iii). In vivo catalytic chemistry.

I am delighted to announce the addition of four esteemed scientists to the Biomaterials Science Editorial Board. Welcome Giuseppe Battaglia, Mark Bradley, Pat Stayton and Jun Wang!

Together with our Editors-in-Chief and Associate Editors, our Editorial Board members will shape the direction of the journal and I look forward to working with them all to make Biomaterials Science a leading journal in the field. 

Keep an eye out for further Editorial and Advisory Board appointments! Also, coming soon – interviews with our new Editorial Board members. Find out more about their research interests and their thoughts on the future of Biomaterials Science!