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Dr. Qian Zhong is an Assistant Professor in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin. He completed his Ph.D. in Materials Science at Wayne State University, under the mentorship of Professor Sandro da Rocha, where he focused on developing inhalable nanomedicine for lung cancer treatment. He also worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Radiology at Stanford University with Professor Raag Airan, where he engineered focused ultrasound-responsive drug delivery systems for noninvasive transcranial neuromodulation. Dr. Zhong's research embodies an interdisciplinary approach to design highly modular biomaterials-centric molecular probes and drug delivery systems that target disease-specific enzyme biomarkers in pathological microenvironments. His work aims to enable noninvasive detection and therapeutic assessment of cancer and chronic diseases at the point of care, and to achieve tissue- and cell-specific delivery of biologics. Zhong’s lab is dedicated to the development of next-generation programmable molecular diagnostics and optimization of noninvasive drug delivery routes, thereby advancing precision health through biomarker identification, early detection, and personalized interventions.
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Developed inhalable biosensors capable of diagnosing early-stage lung cancer.
Department of Radiology, Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Engineered focused ultrasound-responsive drug delivery systems for noninvasive transcranial neuromodulation.
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