“For outstanding contributions to biomaterials for medical imaging and imaging-guided therapy, including new ion level sensors for the diagnosis and therapy of neurological disorders"

Biography: Prof. Daishun Ling received his Ph.D. in School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University. Later, he worked as a professor in the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University. Now, he is a full professor in School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Prof. Ling’s primary research interest has been focusing on the assembly/disassembly chemistry, stimuli-responsive biomaterials, dynamic nanoassembly based drug delivery systems. Up to now, he has published > 100 papers in prominent international journals including Nature Nanotechnol., Nature Mater., Nature Biomed. Eng., Nature Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Adv. Sci., Adv. Funct. Mater., Nano Today, ACS Nano, Nano Lett., ACS Cent. Sci., etc. He has been serving as the Associate Editor of Exploration and Nano Select, Assistant Editor of J. Control Release, Theme Editor of Adv. Drug Deliv. Rev., Academic Editor of The Innovation, and the Editorial Board Member of Sci. Bull. He has received several prestigious fellowships and awards including the National 1000 Plan for Young Talents, the National Science Found for Excellent Youth Scholars, and the Chief Young Scientist of the National Key Research and Development Program.