Education and Working Experience

Hong Chen, a professor at the College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Soochow University, Suzhou, China. Her research interests include: Surface modification and functionalization of biomaterials, Interaction of protein/cell and biomaterials, Hemocompatibility of biomaterials, and Biological detection. Professor Hong Chen earned her Ph.D. degree from Nanjing University, China in 2001 studying polymeric biomaterials. She was a postdoc. at McMaster University, Canada, 2001-2004. After returning back to China, she held a full professor position at Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China from 2004 to 2009. Her research group moved to Soochow University, Suzhou, in 2010. She has been the PI of more than 10 national research projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the Ministry of Education of China and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, including a Major International Joint Research Project. She is the winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2011). She was also supported by the program for Talents of Jiangsu Province (2010), the Ministry of Education Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (2006), the Excellent Youth Foundation of Hubei province (2005). She is an Editorial Board member of Colloids and Surface B and Polymer Chemistry (RSC). She was a guest editor for the special issue: “Biointerfaces in China” published in 2011 and became an editor of Colloids and Surface B since 2013. She has published more than 70 research articles in various peer reviewed journals.