Principal Investigator
Wei Zhang, PhD
Dr. Wei Zhang joined the Department of Pharmaceutical Science at the University of Pittsburgh as an Assistant Professor in 2023. Prior to Pitt, he was an Assistant Professor in Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School.
He received his BS degree in Chemistry from Peking University in 2011, and worked on liquid crystal polymers for light-emitting diodes in the lab of Prof. Qifeng Zhou. He received his PhD in Polymer Science in 2016 from the University of Akron with Prof. Stephen ZD Cheng (NAE), and worked on synthesis and supramolecular structures of precise macromolecules based on molecular nanoparticles and polymer-nanoparticle conjugates. Then, he did postdoc training at Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital with Profs. Daniel Kohane & Robert Langer, where he worked on various applications of biomedical materials, including photo-controlled drug delivery for local anesthesia, non-invasive local drug delivery system for otitis media, polymeric tissue adhesives and drug-eluting contact lens.
He is author of 50 publications (17 as first, 3 as corresponding, by 2023) in Science, Nat Biomed Eng, Nat Commun, ACS Cent Sci, J Am Chem Soc, Angew Chem, PNAS, etc., and 4 patents (1 licensed to a company), and he is a recipient of the NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00).
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Postdoc, Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital
PhD, the University of Akron
BS, Peking University
Faculty Profile:
https://www.pharmacy.pitt.edu/people/wei-zhang
Team Members
Changling Du, PhD
PhD, Syracuse University
MS, Syracuse University
BS, Truman State University
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Huaming Wang, PhD
PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
MS, Fujian Normal University
BS, Shenyang Jianzhu University
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Xianyou Liu, PhD
PhD, South China University of Technology
BS, Xiamen University
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Anyu Yang, PhD (incoming summer 2024)
PhD, Chongqing Medical University
MS, Chongqing Medical University
MD, Chongqing Medical University
Yanni Cao, MS (incoming PhD student 2024)
MS, China Pharmaceutical University
BS, Soochow University
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Join us
We actively recruit postdocs, visiting scholars, and students with diverse background (chemistry, engineering, pharmaceutical and biomedical, etc.), experience in small molecule and polymer synthesis is particularly preferred at this moment.
-PhD and MS students can be admitted through the Pharmaceutics Track and Medicinal Chemistry Track in the Graduate Program of the School of Pharmacy.
-Students at other levels can also contact us for research opportunities.
Please kindly attach your CV when inquiring.
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