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Dr. Xiaoyang Xu is a tenured full professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and heads the Nanomedicine and Biomedical Materials Laboratory. He is also affiliated to the Department of Biomedical Engineering at NJIT. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Northwestern University under the mentorship of Professor Chad Mirkin, a world-renowned scientist in chemistry and nanomaterials. Dr. Xu later pursued postdoctoral research in nanomedicine and drug delivery with Professor Robert S. Langer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a pioneer in tissue engineering and drug delivery. Dr. Xu’s research focuses on the development of novel functional biomaterials, nucleic acid drug nanocarriers, targeted nanomedicines, and nano-diagnostic agents, with applications in drug delivery, tissue engineering, gene therapy, and precision medicine. He has published over 60 SCI papers in journals such as Nature Communications, Science Advances, Bioactive Materials, JACS, PNAS, Angewandte Chemie, and ACS Nano, with more than 11,000 citations and has applied for several patents related to drug delivery systems. Dr. Xu's research team is committed to translating lab discoveries into clinical applications to enhance the prevention and treatment of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes.