Prof. Jianliang Shen received his Ph.D. degree from Sun Yat-Sen University in 2014 and completed his postdoctoral training at Houston Methodist Hospital Research Institute in 2017. Then, he started independent research work as a full professor at Wenzhou Medical University. His current research is focused on the hybrid biomaterial development of therapeutics and technologies to advance cancer immunotherapy and tissue engineering. His team's passion and motivation for research comes from the hope that they can bring good news to patients through the cross-disciplinary means of materials, chemistry and pharmacy. Prof. Shen has over 200 peer-reviewed publications in Nature Biotechnology, Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Biomaterials and others. In addition, 42 papers were selected as “ESI highly cited papers”. His H-index records 63 (Google Scholar).

Dr. Lei Zhang is a professor of biomedical engineering at Zhejiang University. Before beginning this position in 2021, Dr. Zhang completed a three-year postdoctoral appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2013. Dr. Zhang received the Hundred Talents Program in 2021. He is the author of more than 60 publications and 10 patents. His research interests include biocompatible/bio-sensitive organic conjugated polymers, as well as micro-/nano scale soft materials for flexible bioelectronic devices and bionic tissue engineering.

Prof. Amir Fahmi has been a professor since 2011 at the Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences. He started his research career at the end of the 1990s (1998/1999), working on his diploma thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. med. Werner Jaroß and Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Karl-Heinz van Pée at the Institute for Clinical Chemistry, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, at the Technical University (TU) Dresden. He was later appointed as a research fellow at the Institute of Biochemistry with Prof. Dr. rer. nat. van Pée at TU Dresden. From 2000 to 2003, he held a PhD scholarship under the supervision of Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Manfred Stamm in the field of physical chemistry of polymeric nanostructured materials, conducting research at the Institute for Polymer Research (IPF) Dresden and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI) in Mainz. Then he became a postdoctoral fellow in the Nanoscience Group, Department of Physics, at the University of Nottingham, UK. In 2005, Dr. Fahmi was appointed as a senior research fellow (assistant professor) at the University's Department of Manufacturing, Materials and Mechanical Engineering, where he established his own research group within the Nottingham Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre (NIMRC). With his multidisciplinary group, he has pioneered several concepts and key aspects in the fabrication of nanostructured materials via self-assembly of (bio)polymeric materials and inorganic nanoparticles. He holds five granted patents and has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in international journals, conference proceedings, as well as a textbook titled Polymere-Chemie and Strukturen and several book chapters in various structured materials fields.