Zhao Wenting
Assistant Professor
School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Biography
Dr. Zhao joined the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in August 2017. She was previously a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University, working in both Prof. Yi Cui's group in Materials Science and Engineering and Prof. Bianxiao Cui's group in Chemistry. Her postdoc work leverages state-of-art nanotechnologies to elucidate the cell-environment interaction with nanoscale perspectives. She obtained her B.Eng in Bioengineering from Zhejiang University in China. After that, she was awarded the Jebsen Scholarship from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to pursue her Master degree and later her Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering with Prof. I-Ming Hsing. Her research has been published in Nature Nanotechnology, PNAS, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Chemical Communications, etc.
Research Interest
nano-bio interface with a particular focus on nanomaterial-based manipulation of bio-interface properties to study a variety of cellular behaviors, including membrane trafficking, pathogen infection, and neurodegeneration.
