Principal Investigator

Kanyi Pu, PhD, FRSC

Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering
School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Nanyang Technological University
2011-2015: Postdoc, Stanford University
2007-2011: PhD, National University of Singapore
2004-2007: MS, Fudan University
2000-2004: BSc, East China University of Sci & Tech

Brief Biography

Prof. Pu is a highly cited researcher listed by Clarivate Analytics, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), and the associate editor for ACS Applied Polymer Materials, Biomaterials Research, and Smart Molecules. With a h-index of 110 (Nov 2023), his work has been highlighted by many world-renown scientific journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods, Nature Review Nephrology, Nature Materials, and Cell Express.

Awards and Honors:
2023 Highly Cited Researcher by Web of Science (Chemistry; Materials Science)
2022 Singapore NRF Investigatorship Award
2022 Highly Cited Researcher by Web of Science (Chemistry; Materials Science)
2021 Highly Cited Researcher by Web of Science (Materials Science)

2020 Highly Cited Researcher by Web of Science (Materials Science)

2020 Elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
2020 Biomaterials Science Lectureship Award, Royal Society of Chemistry
2019 Highly Cited Researcher by Web of Science (Materials Science)
2019 Nanyang Education Award
2019 Distinguished Lectureship Award from the Chemical Society of Japan
2018 Wiley Award for Contribution in Bioscience
2018 Young Innovator Award in Nanobiotechnology by Nano Research
2013 Travel award for young investigators, World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) 2013, Savannah, Georgia, USA
Academic Service:
Associate Editor:
ACS Applied Polymer Materials
Biomaterials Research
Smart Molecules.
Editorial advisory board member:

Chemical Society Reviews (IF=60.61)

Advanced Functional Materials (IF=19.92)

Small (IF=15.15)

Biomaterials (IF=15.30)
Aggregate (IF=18.8)
Journal of Nanobiotechnology (IF=9.46)
ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering (IF=5.39)
Bioconjugate Chemistry (IF=5.81)
Translational Oncology (IF=4.24)

Chinese Journal of Polymer Science (IF=3.60)
Chemosensors (IF=3.39)

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Nano Research
Analysis & Sensing
MedComm-Biomaterials and Applications
MedMat

Chemical and Biomedical Sensing (ACS Publisher)

Board of directors for Chinese American Society of Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology (CASNN)