Professor Lijie Grace Zhang
Lijie Grace Zhang, Ph.D. is
Assistant Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Director of the
Bioengineering Laboratory for Nanomedicine and Tissue Engineering,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of
Engineering
and Applied Science, The George Washington University.
Grace’s research interests include
biomimetic nanomaterials for bone tissue engineering and orthopedic
applications, stem cell therapy for tissue regeneration,
sustained drug delivery systems for biomedical applications, and
cartilage tissue engineering.
She has published 5 book chapters related to bone tissue engineering and
nanotechnology fields, over 12 papers in Biomaterials, Tissue
Engineering, Nanotechnology, etc., and presented her work at
over
18
conferences. In addition, her research was highlighted on NBC nightly
news as an example of the future of medicine (May 14, 2007). She was
also the recipient of the Society for Biomaterials STAR Awards in 2007
(Chicago, IL) and in 2009 (San Antonio, TX).
Her publications include
The Role of Tissue Engineering in Articular Cartilage Repair and
Regeneration,
Carbon nanofibers and carbon nanotubes in regenerative
medicine,
Biologically inspired rosette nanotubes and nanocrystalline
hydroxyapatite hydrogel nanocomposites as improved bone
substitutes, and
Arginine-glycine-aspartic acid modified rosette
nanotube—hydrogel
composites for bone tissue engineering,
Grace earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2001 and M.S. in
Applied
Chemistry in 2004, both
from Tianjin University in China. She then earned a M.S. in Chemical
Engineering from Brown University in 2007 and her Ph.D. in Biomedical
Engineering at Brown University in 2009.
She was listed in
Who’s Who in America in 2010.
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