Principal Investigator
xiongzhuo@tsinghua.edu.cn
Full Professor
Professor Xiong Zhuo currently serves as vice president of the Beijing Mechanical Engineering Society and as deputy director of the Beijing Key Laboratory for Biomanufacturing and Rapid Prototyping. He is one of the pioneers to enter the emerging interdisciplinary research field of biofabricationand extend 3D bioprinting technology to the field of biomedicine. As early as 1999, he began to engage in the research of 3D bioprinting. In 2004, he presided over the first funded project of the National Foundation of China in the field of 3D bioprinting. He invented the low-temperature deposition manufacturing process and a variety of bioprinting techniques. There have been two appraisals of the related achievements as being of international leading level by the Ministry of Education, and one Beijing Science and Technology Award has been awarded. In recent years, he has published more than 100 articles in Biomaterials, Small, Advanced Functional Materials, and other journals as the corresponding author, which have been cited 3300 times in SCOPUS with an H factor of 32. In addition, more than 20 Chinese invention patents have been granted. He has undertaken key projects of the Joint Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation (NSF), general NSF projects, and ministry projects. He was a visiting professor at the Fourth Military Medical University, a visiting researcher at the Institute of Basic Medicine of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, and an adjunct professor at Shenzhen Graduate School of Tsinghua University. He has served as a member of the board of directors of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, a standing member/Director General of the Biomanufacturing Branch of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, and a member of the Professional Committee of Aerospace Medical Engineering and Space Biology of the Chinese Society of Astronautics.
Principal Investigator
Dr. Ting Zhang
t-zhang@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Associate Professor
Professor Zhang has received support from the National Youth Talent Program. She is currently the Director General of the Bio-manufacturing Engineering Branch of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society as well as the Secretary General of the Biomaterials Advanced Manufacturing Branch of the Chinese Biomaterials Society. In recent years, she has been actively involved in the research of bioprinting and advanced biofabrication technologies development, myocardial tissue engineering and vascularization, in vitro microenvironment and bioreactor, organ on a chip and other biomanufacturing related cross-fields. She presided over key research and development projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, general projects and Youth Foundation of the National Natural Science Foundation, China-South Korea International Exchange Fund and other projects. In recent years, she has published more than 50 articles in Biofabrication, Biomaterials, Advance Healthcare Materials, and other journals as the corresponding author, which have been cited 1450 times in SCOPUS with an H factor of 19. In addition, more than 20 Chinese invention patents have been granted.
Dr. Yongcong Fang
fangyc@tsinghua.edu.cn
Assistant Professor
Fang Yongcong is a member of the Beijing Association for Science and Technology's Young Talent Promotion Program (2023-2025). He has received four national projects, including the Ministry of Science and Technology Key Research and Development Project, the National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Project, and the Chinese Postdoctoral Foundation Special and General Projects. Over the past five years, he has published 14 articles in top journals such as Advanced Materials (2 articles), Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, and Biomaterials as the first or corresponding author, with a total of 29 papers and over 600 citations. He has applied for 13 invention patents in China and the United States, won the Silver Award at the Geneva International Invention Exhibition, and is a youth committee member of the Additive Manufacturing Branch of the Mechanical Engineering Society. Additionally, he serves as a young editorial board member and guest editor for journals like Nano Materials Science and Additive Manufacturing Frontiers. His work has been featured by Guangming Network, MIT Technology Review, and CCTV News.
Education Experience
2013.09-2020.08, Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University,PhD
2016.12-2017.05,Institute of Biomaterials, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg,Visiting Scholar
2009.09-2013.07 ,Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University,Bachelor