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Professor Xiaojun Zhao is the Chief Scientist and Founding Executive Director at the Institute for NanoBiomedical Technology and Membrane Biology, Sichuan University. He holds visiting Professorship in Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University. He is currently working with various self-assembling peptide systems to develop new classes of biological materials including peptide matrix scaffolds for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, biological surface engineering and peptide surfactant nanotubes for stabilizing membrane proteins and their complexes. His lab is also involved in several other studies such as developing scaffolds for controlling stem cells differentiation and proliferation, tumor cells in vitro proliferation and drug therapy, virus proliferation and growth inhibition in modified peptide gel scaffolds.
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