Frontiers in Pharmaceutical Sciences Lecture Series - No. 214
Supramolecular Hybrid Materials for Controlled Drug Delivery and Toward Organocatalysis
Topic:Supramolecular Hybrid Materials for Controlled Drug Delivery and Toward Organocatalysis
Speaker:Ken C. F. Leung, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Hong Kong Baptist University
Chair:Prof. Ming Yan, School of Pharmaceutical Science, SYSU
Time:Thursday, May 07, 2015, 3:00 PM
Venue:125 Lecture Hall, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, East Campus, SYSU
Introduction to the speaker:
Dr. Leung is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Assistant to Director at the Institute of Creativity, The Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. China. He gained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1999 and 2003, respectively. He conducted a three-year postdoctoral research work for the years 2003-2006 at The California NanoSystems Institute and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of California at Los Angeles, USA. His research interests are in the field of supramolecular chemistry, nanoscience, and nanomedicine. He has published 65 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals with over 2400 times of citation and an h-index of 29. He is the recipient of two Asian Core Program Lectureship Awards from Japan (2010) and South Korea (2012), Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Technology Advancement, First Class) from the Ministry of Education of China (2011), Materials Research Contribution Award from the Asia Pacific Society for Materials Research (2013), and Asian Rising Stars Award from the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies (2013).
All are welcome to the lecture!