Yi Hong, an assistant professor in the Bioengineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington, has been named a Fellow of the American Heart Association, one of the most prestigious professional organizations for outstanding contributions in science, medicine, volunteerism and leadership in heart health.
Hong was cited by the AHA’s Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences for developing biomaterials for cardiovascular disease treatment. He will be formally inducted at the organization’s meeting July 10-13 in Portland, Oregon.
Hong won a five-year $500,000 National Science Foundation Early Career Development, or CAREER, Program grant in February 2016 to create conductive, single-component and biodegradable elastomers. Hong’s technology is a significant advancement over conventional conductive polymers that are very stiff, hard to be processed and non-degradable.
He earned his doctoral degree at Zhejiang University in 2005 and was a post-doctoral associate and research assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, where he received PITT Innovator Awards in 2009 and 2010. He joined the UTA Department of Bioengineering in 2012.
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