Prof Chun-Xia Zhao, NHMRC Leadership Fellow at Adelaide University (AU), Australia

Professor Zhao is a Professor and an NHMRC Leadership Fellow at Adelaide University (AU), the Deputy Director of an ARC Centre of Excellence, and Co-Director of Adelaide RNA Innovation Hub. Before she joined AU, she was a group leader, ARC Future fellow, UQ Amplify Fellow at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland. She leads a research group focusing on bioinspired engineering, biomimetic nanomaterials for drug delivery (small molecule drugs, proteins and RNAs) and biomimetic devices (tumor on a chip, organ on a chip) for drug development. She has been awarded four national prestigious fellowship (Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship and ARC Future Fellowship, and two NHMRC Leadership Fellowships). Prof. Zhao has published more than 170 referred articles and book chapters in international top refereed journals such as Nature Nanotechnology, PNAS, Science Advances, Nature Comm, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ACS Nano, Small, AM, AFM, and so on. She has been focusing on innovative research as evidenced by her patents, technology licenses and spin-out. She has collaborated with many industry partners for translational research.