Dr. Yi Hong is an Associate Professor in the Bioengineering Department at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). He achieved his PhD in Material Science and Engineering in 2005 at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. And then Dr. Hong worked as a postdoc and later as a Research Assistant Professor in the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine in the University of Pittsburgh (PITT) from 2006 to 2012. After joined in UTA in 2012, his research focuses on developing functional and bioactive biodegradable soft materials and translational research for tissue repair and regeneration, drug delivery and bio-imaging applications with emphasis on cardiovascular disease treatment. He has published over 80 peer-review papers in the field of biomaterials, and 12 patents as well as over 120 conference abstracts. He received many awards, including NSF CAREER award (2016), COE Outstanding Early Career Faculty Award (2018), BMES ABioM Junior Investigator Award (2018), Excellence in Research (2020), and CAB Mid-Career Award (2020). He was elected as a Fellow of American Heart Association in 2017. His research has been funded from AHA, NSF, NIH, ONR and CPRIT.
EDUCATION
2005PhD in Materials Science and Engineering Zhejiang University, 2005
2002MS in Materials Science Hebei University of Technology, 2002
1996AA in Polymeric Chemical Engineering East China University Of Science and Technology, 1996
APPOINTMENTS
July 2008 to Aug 2012Research Assistant Professor McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Feb 2006 to June 2008Research Associate McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
July 1996 to Sept 1999Project Engineer Institute of Design and Research, Petrochemical Factory (China)