James Jing Kwan
"School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering College of En
Korea University
Korea
Biography
In 2007 I completed a BSc in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After, I moved to Columbia University where I completed an MSc, MPhil, and PhD all in Chemical Engineering. After completion of my degrees in 2012, I started a brief postdoctoral position at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Later that year, I took a position as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. I also became a Junior Research Fellow at New College from 2013 – 2015, where I conducted undergraduate tutorials in engineering
Research Interest
To date, there are numerous unmet challenges that face therapies for cancer, cardiovascular, and neurological disorders. These challenges often stem from the substantial physiological barriers that prevent drug therapies from passively entering into diseased tissue. For example, tumors often have heightened internal pressure that hinders the entry of all classes of chemotherapeutic agent. Similarly, the blood vessels in the brain have an innate barrier to prevent large molecules from entering. As a result, many of these therapies either rely of excessive use of the therapeutic, or resort to life changing surgeries to overcome these barriers.
Publications
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Poon KC, Khezri B, Li Y, Webster RD, Su H, Sato H. A highly active Pd–P nanoparticle electrocatalyst for enhanced formic acid oxidation synthesized via stepwise electroless deposition. Chemical Communications. 2016;52(17):3556-9.
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Doan V, Thang T, Wang J, Poon KC, Tan DC, Khezri B, Webster RD, Su H, Sato H. Theoretical Modelling and Facile Synthesis of a Highly Active Boronâ€Doped Palladium Catalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2016 Jun 6;55(24):6842-7.
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Cao F, Zhang C, Choo HY, Sato H. Insect–computer hybrid legged robot with user-adjustable speed, step length and walking gait. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 2016 Mar 1;13(116):20160060.
