Zhang Research Group: Biomaterials and Nanomedicines

 

School of Synthetic Biology and Biomanufacturing, 

 

State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, 

 

Tianjin University, Tianjin, P. R. China

 

 

He REN 任和

  E-mail: renhestudy@tju.edu.cn

Jiexin LI 黎杰鑫

 

Master student since fall 2020

 

Ph.D studen since fall 2022 (Email: lijiexin_11@tju.edu.cn)

Jiexin Li was born in Huaihua, Hunan Province. He obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of South china in 2020. Jiexin's research interest involves immunotherapy. In his free time, he likes running and watching movies.

Wenjin LIANG 梁文进

 

Ph.D studen since fall 2024 (Email: liangwenjin@tju.edu.cn)

Wenjin Liang was born in Jining, Shandong Province. He obtained his bachelor's degree from Qingdao University of Science and Technology in 2017 and completed his master's degree at Shihezi University in 2024. Wenjin's research interests encompass cancer immunotherapy. In his leisure time, he enjoys drinking tea and listening to music.

Yumiao Zhang is a full professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at Tianjin University, China, since 2018. He obtained his dual bachelor degrees from Nankai University (Chemistry) and Tianjin University (Chemical Engineering) in 2010. After one-year of research training at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, he transferred to the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo), where he received his Ph.D. degree (Chemical and Biological Engineering) from the Lab of Jonathan Lovell in 2016. Then he went to UC Berkeley for his postdoc training. Afterwards, he came back to Tianjin University for his independent research in 2018.

 

 

 

 

 

Yumiao ZHANG 张育淼 (CV)

 

    E-mail: ymzhang88@tju.edu.cn

 

 

 

Doctoral and Master Students 

Principal Investigator

Undergraduates 

Fuzhen HU 胡福振

 

Ph.D studen since fall 2024 (Email: fuzhenhu@tju.edu.cn)

Fuzhen is from Hulunbeier City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. He obtained his undergraduate degree at Southwest Minzu University in 2017 and completed his master degree at Capital Normal University in 2021.Hu is keenly interested in the study of drug delivery systems.

Dan ZHANG 张丹

Master student since fall 2025 (E-mail: zhangdanzd@tju.edu.cn)


 

Dan was born in the Tianjin Province. She obtained dual bachelor degrees from Tianjin University and Nankai University in 2024. In her spare time, she enjoys drawing and assembling models.

 

Yumeng ZHAO 赵雨萌

Master student since fall 2025 (E-mail: 2025207637@tju.edu.cn)


 

Shumin YU 喻淑敏

Master student since fall 2025 (E-mail: yushumin@tju.edu.cn)


 

Shumin hails from Yichun City in Jiangxi Province. She obtained her bachelor degree from Tianjin University in 2025. In her spare time, she enjoys listening to music and reading.

 

Jiaying HUANG 黄佳莹

Master student since fall 2023 (E-mail: jy_huang01@tju.edu.cn)


 

Jiaying was born in the Zhejiang Province. She obtained her bachelor degree from Qingdao University of Science and Technology in 2023.Her research interest involves polymeric drug delivery systems.

 

Wenhao DONG 董文浩

Master student since fall 2023 (E-mail:dong_wh2001@tju.edu.cn)


 

Wenhao was born in Anhui Province and grew up in Tianjin. He obtained his bachelor degree from Tianjin University in 2023. His research interest involves cancer immunotherapy. In his spare time, he usually watches Marvel movies.

 

Kun YANG 杨坤

Master student since fall 2023 (E-mail: yk_594@tju.edu.cn)


 

Kun was born in the Sichuan Province. He obtained his bachelor degree from China University of Petroleum-Beijing at Karamay in 2023.His research interest involves cancer immunotherapy.

 

Yizhen DU 杜宜祯

Master student since fall 2024 (E-mail: yizhendu@tju.edu.cn)


 

Yizhen was born in the Shanxi Province. She obtained her bachelor degree from Taiyuan University of Technology in 2024. Her research interest involves immunotherapy and novel drug deliyery system development.

 

Ruifang BAI 白瑞芳

Master student since fall 2024 (E-mail: ruifangbai@tju.edu.cn)


 

Ruifang was born in the Shanxi Province. She obtained her bachelor degree from Qingdao University of Science and Technology in 2024. Her research interest involves immunotherapy.

 

Zening FENG 冯赜宁

Master student since fall 2024 (E-mail: zening1230808@163.com)


 

Zening was born in Guangdong Province. She obtained her bachelor degree from Tianjin University in 2024. Her research interest involves cancer immunotherapy.

 

Alumni

 

Ph.D.               Period Position last known
Xingyue Yang, 杨星月                             2018-2022    Faculty member, Weifang Medical University, Shandong, China  
He Ren,任和 2019-2023 Postdoctoral fellow in our lab                                                       
Chen Zhang,张晨 2020-2024 Faculty member, Liaoning University, Liaoning, China                  
Zhen Jiang,姜振 2021-2025 Qilu Pharma, China
Gengqi Liu,刘庚琪 2021-2025 Chinese Center For Disease Control And Prevention, China

 

 

 

 

Masters Period Position last known
Zhen Jiang, 姜振 2018-2021 PhD student in our lab
Gengqi Liu, 刘庚琪  2018-2021 PhD student in our lab
Yuanmeng Ding, 丁圆梦 2019-2022 Industrial position in Wuhan, Hubei, China
Di Lu, 卢迪 2019-2022 Industrial position in Shengzhou, Zhejiang, China
Jiexin Li, 黎杰鑫 2020-2022 PhD student in our lab
Xiaojie Wang, 王晓洁 2020-2023 Primed Beijing Technology Co Ltd,Beijing,China
Jingang Liu,刘金刚 2020-2023 PhD student at Fudan University
Minchao Hao,郝敏超 2021-2024 Zhejiang NHU Co., Ltd., Weifang, Shandong, China
Qian Qiu,邱倩 2021-2024 Industrial position in Shanghai
Jingyu Zhang,张景育 2021-2024 Industrial position in Beijing
Nan Zhang,张楠 2022-2025 Sichuan Honghua Industrial Co, Ltd, Sichuan, China
Ruiqi Yang,杨睿祺 2022-2025 Industrial position in Shenzhen
Silu Li,李思路 2022-2025 Research assistant in Tianjin

 

 

 

Undergraduates Period Position last known
Hao Li, 李浩 2019-2020 PhD student, Peking University, China
Cui Yu,于毳 2020-2021 PhD student, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, CAS, China
Yueqi Wang,王玥琪 2019-2021 Master student, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Xingwu Liu,刘兴武 2020-2021 Master student, SUSTech, China
Qinghua Yang, 杨清华 2020-2022 PhD student, Northwestern University, USA
Zhijun Yang, 杨志俊 2020-2022 PhD student, Tsinghua University, China
Xinyue Wang, 王昕玥 2020-2022 PhD student, Tsinghua University, China
Nan Zhang, 张楠 2020-2022 Master student in our lab
Zhaohan Liu, 刘肇汉 2020-2022 Master student in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Yunteng Hou, 侯云腾 2021-2022 PhD student, Zhejiang University, China
Lu Chen, 陈露 2021-2022 PhD student, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Shuying Li, 李淑英 2021-2022 PhD student, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Xiangfei Shan, 单相斐 2022-2023 PhD student,Institute of process engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences,China
Siyuan Qu,曲思源 2022-2023 PhD student,Zhejiang University,China
Keyi Lan,蓝可沂 2022-2023 Master student,Tianjin University,China
Wenhao Dong,董文浩 2022-2023 Master student in our lab
Yujia Zhang,张羽佳 2022-2023 Master student,Hunan University,China
Peng Xu,徐鹏 2022-2023 Master student,Peking Union Medical College,China
Xuan Pei,裴煊 2022-2023 Master student,Tianjin University,China
Mengyuan Xu,徐梦圆 2023-2024 Master student,Zhejiang University,China
Gaoxia Ma,马高霞 2023-2024 Master student,Zhejiang University,China
Xinyao Wang, 王欣瑶 2023-2024 Master student,Zhejiang University,China
Wenlu Meng,孟文璐 2023-2024 Master student,Nanjing University,China
Zening Feng,冯赜宁 2023-2024 Master student in our lab
Haojie Wang,王浩洁 2023-2024  
Dan Zhang,张丹 2023-2024 Master student in our lab

Postdoctoral Fellows

 

Mingyu Ma,马明玉
Kexin Xie,谢可欣
Rui Liu,刘睿

 

 

 

 

 

Jiadong WANG 王家栋

PhD student since fall 2025 (E-mail: wangjiadong@tju.edu.cn )

Jiadong Wang is from Taizhou, Zhejiang Province. He received his master's degree from Soochow University in 2025. He is particularly interested in the application of biomaterials to cancer immunotherapy. In his spare time, he enjoys photography and playing badminton. 

Zekun LI 李泽坤

PhD student since fall 2025 (E-mail: erkun218@tju.edu.cn)

Zekun Li comes from Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province. She obtained her master's degree from Shaanxi Normal University in 2022. She is interested in molecular simulation and immunotherapy. In her spare time, she enjoys painting.

Yumeng was born in the Henan Province. She obtained her bachelor degree from Tianjin University  in 2024. She is interested in dancing and doing varities of exercises.

 

Students awards 

 

 

Ph.D.               Awards
Fuzhen Hu, 胡福振           2024年学业二等奖学金
Wenjin Liang, 梁文进 2024年学业二等奖学金
Jiexin Li, 黎杰鑫

2024年国家奖学金、2024年学业一等奖学金、2023年天津大学三好学生、2023年学业一等奖学金

2022年学业特等奖学金、2021年学业二等奖学金、2020年学业特等奖学金

Zhen Jiang, 姜振

2024年天津大学优秀班干、2024年学业一等奖学金、2023年天津大学三好学生、2023年天津大学文艺

活动先进个人、2023年学业一等奖学金、2022年学业二等奖学金、2021年天津大学优秀毕业生、2021年

学业一等奖学金、2020年学业特等奖学金、2019年化工学院“发现科学之美”图片征集三等奖

Gengqi Liu,刘庚琪

2024年学业一等奖学金、2023年学业一等奖学金、2022年学业一等奖学金、2021年学业一等奖学金、

2020年学业一等奖学金、2019年学业二等奖学金、2018年学业二等奖学金

He Ren,任和

第十六届国际生物医学光子学与成像会议(PIBM) 2023 最佳学生论文奖、2020年学业一等奖学金、

2019年学业二等奖学金、2018年学业二等奖学金

Chen Zhang,张晨 2021年学业三等奖学金、2020年学业二等奖学金、2019年学业二等奖学金
Xingyue Yang,杨星月 2021年学业一等奖学金、2020年学业二等奖学金、2019年学业一等奖学金、2018年学业三等奖学金

 

 

Masters Awards
Zening Feng,冯赜宁 2024年学业特等奖学金
Ruifang Bai,白瑞芳 2024年学业特等奖学金
Yizhen Du,杜宜祯 2024年学业特等奖学金
Kun Yang,杨坤 2024年学业二等奖学金、2023年学业特等奖学金
Wenhao Dong, 董文浩 2023年学业一等奖学金
Jiaying Huang, 黄佳莹 2024年学业二等奖学金、2023年学业一等奖学金
Silu Li, 李思路 2024年学业二等奖学金、2023年学业二等奖学金、2022年学业特等奖学金
Ruiqi Yang, 杨睿祺

2024年学业二等奖学金、2024年天津大学三好学生、2023年学业二等奖学金、2022年学业特等奖学金

Nan Zhang, 张楠

2024年学业二等奖学金、2024年天津大学优秀学生干部、2023年学业二等奖学金、2023年天津大学优秀

学生干部、2022年学业特等奖学金

Qian Qiu,邱倩 2021年学业一等奖学金、2022年三星奖学金
Jingyu Zhang,张景育 2021年学业一等奖学金
Minchao Hao,郝敏超 2021年学业一等奖学金
Xiaojie Wang,王晓洁 2021年学业二等奖学金
Jingang Liu,刘金刚 2021年学业二等奖学金
Di Lu, 卢迪 2020年学业二等奖学金、2019年学业二等奖学金
Yuanmeng Ding,丁圆梦 

2021年学业特等奖学金、2021年天津大学鹿凯宁教授奖学金、2020年学业二等奖学金、2019年学业特等

奖学金

He Ren was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. He got his Ph.D. degree from our lab at Tianjin University in 2023, and obtained his undergraduate and master degree at Sichuan University in 2016 and 2019, respectively. He Ren is fascinated by cancer immunotherapy and novel drug delivery system development. He enjoys extensive reading, soccer and classical music.

 

 

 

 

 

Yue PAN 潘越

 

Ph.D studen since fall 2025 (Email: yuepan66@tju.edu.cn)

Yue is from Baotou City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. He obtained his undergraduate degree at Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology in 2017 and completed his master degree at Tianjin University of Science and Technology in 2021.Yue is keenly interested in the  badminton.

Research Assistant

Yaohun DU 杜耀辉

Research assistant since fall 2025 (E-mail: duyaohui@tju.edu.cn)

Yaohui was born in Jiaozuo, Henan Province. He obtained his master’s degree from Tianjin University in 2025. His research interests encompass cancer immunotherapy and the design of peptide supramolecular materials. In his spare time, he enjoys playing basketball..