Biomedicines 2022 Young Investigator Award—Winners Announced

We are pleased to announce that the winners of the Biomedicines 2022 Young Investigator Award are Dr. Yuyan Jiang and Prof. Billy Wai-Lung Ng.

Dr. Yuyan Jiang is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Radiation Oncology at Stanford University, USA. Dr. Jiang is a highly productive young researcher with special interests in developing next-generation radio-sensitizer, bio-responsive cancer nanomedicine and photoactive ultrasensitive molecular probes for deep-tissue diagnosis. Since the beginning of her scientific career in 2016, she has published 39 peer-review articles in high-ranking journals including Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Communications, Chemical Reviews, Accounts of Chemical Research, etc. According to Google Scholar, her research has received > 5,500 citations and her h-index is 36. Dr. Jiang is an Editorial Board Member of Materials and Collagen and Leather. She is also the Guest Editor of two Materials Special Issues, including “Advanced Biomaterials Design and Sensing Application” and “Advanced Biomaterials for Cancer Sonodynamic Therapy”.

Prof. Billy Wai-Lung Ng leads the Ng Lab of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery at the School of Pharmacy, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). His research interests are chemical biology, drug discovery, and medicinal chemistry. Prof. Ng completed his postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Prior to Harvard, he was a research fellow at the University of Oxford, with funding support from the Croucher Foundation and Marie Curie Fellowship. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during his graduate study. He obtained his Ph.D. and B.Sc. (1st Class Hons.) in chemistry from CUHK. He has co-authored more than 20 papers in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Chemical Biology, Molecular Cell, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., and ACS Central Science and he also serves as a reviewer for more than 20 journals including Science Translational Medicine, Nature Chemical Biology, and Nature Biotechnology. Prof. Ng was honored as a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum in 2022. For further details, please visit his lab webpage: https://www.ngwailung.com.

As the awardees, Dr. Yuyan Jiang and Prof. Billy Wai-Lung Ng will each receive an honorarium of CHF 1000 and an electronic certificate.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.

On behalf of Biomedicines 2022 Young Investigator Evaluation Committee,

Prof. Dr. Shaker A. Mousa
Editor-in-Chief