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杭州致公40年印记:与更优秀的人一起同行
澎湃新闻
Jun. 16, 2022
今年是致公党杭州组织成立40周年。为扎实开展“矢志不渝跟党走 携手奋进新时代”政治交接主题教育,本公众号特开辟“杭州致公40年印记”专栏...
Jianjun Cheng, former UIUC Professor joins Westlake University
Blog
Aug. 04, 2021
Before joining Westlake University Prof. Jianjun is the Hans Thurnauer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering...
西湖大学
August 31, 2022
Prof. Cheng as the new Editor-in-Chief for Biomaterials Science
Fast, efficient way to build amino acid chains
利用快速聚合和原位纯化的方法实现聚多肽材料的简易合成
Royal Society of Chemistry
Jan. 07, 2021
Jianjun Cheng has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief for Biomaterials Science, taking over from Professor Jennifer Elisseeff...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
October 5, 2020
中国聚合物网
Jun. 06, 2019
Postdoctoral Researcher Ziyuan Song, Professor Jianjun Cheng and Graduate Students Tianrui Xue and Lazaro Pacheco, developed a new method that streamlines the construction of amino acid building blocks that can be used in a multitude of industrial and pharmaceutical applications...
近日,伊利诺伊大学香槟分校程建军教授团队和康涅狄格大学林遥教授团队合作,从天然蛋白质的合成中受到启发...
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Congratulations to Ziyuan Song and Hanze Ying!
Shape-shifting agent targets harmful bacteria in the stomach
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
November 13, 2017
Dr. Menghua Xiong’s research, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, has been highlighted by the Illinois News Bureau.
Cheng group members attended the 2017 Notre Dame–Purdue Symposium on Soft Materials and Polymers
Purdue University
September 17, 2017
Group members Ruibo Wang and Dr. Ziyuan Song presented posters on their research pertaining to the development of a catalyst for the polymerization of polyesters and the helical stability of polypeptides bearing unique side chains, respectively.…
Ziyuan received poster award at the 2017 Notre Dame–Purdue Symposium on Soft Matter & Polymers

Ryan Baumgartner received the Klemperer Award from Department of Chemistry, UIUC
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
September 17, 2017
Congratulations to Ryan Baumgartner on receiving the Klemperer Award from department of chemistry.
Dr. Hanze Ying won 2017 POLY Graduate Student Video Award
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
August 5, 2017
The video will be playing during the ACS National Meeting in Washington, DC on Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017.
Tumor-targeting system uses cancer’s own mechanisms to betray its location
New brush polymers catalyze their own formation
Professor Jianjun Cheng elected as AAAS Fellow
Nature Chemical Biology
April 20, 2017
Nature Chemistry
February 8, 2017
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
November 21, 2016
Dr. Hua Wang‘s paper “Selective In Vivo Metabolic Cell Labeling Mediated Cancer Targeting” Nature Chemical Biology, 2017, is featured in C&EN news
New brush polymers – synthetic proteinlike molecules that catalyze their own formation – that could provide insight into enzyme behavior and self-replicating systems.
Six University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty members have been elected 2016 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.


Ryan Baumgartner chosen to the “Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research” symposium
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
November 16, 2016
Ruibo Wang chosen as CSTAR/T32 Fellow in TiMe Training Program
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
August 22, 2016
Ryan Baumgartner has been selected to the “Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research” Symposium sponsored by the ACS Polymer Division (POLY)...
Ruibo Wang has been selected as a CSTAR/T32 Fellow in the Tissue Microenvironment Training Program.
Our Research featured on NIH director’s blog
National Institutes of Health
August 6, 2016
Our research “Pamidronate Functionalized Nanoconjugates for Targeted Therapy of Focal Skeletal Malignant Osteolysis” published in PNAS was posted on “NIH DIRECTOR’S BLOG“.

The team lead by Hanze Ying won grand prize in V.Dale Cozad New Venture Competiion
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
April 1, 2016
Kaimin Cai chosen as Beckman Institute Graduate Fellow
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
March 10, 2016
Hanze Ying chosen as Gold Recipient of MRS Graduate Student Awards
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
March 5, 2016
The team “Hindered Polyurea Technology(HPT)” led by Hanze Ying has been chosen as “the Grand Prize Winner sponsored by SalesforceIQ” and “the Polsinelli Law Firm Award Winner” in the 2016 V.Dale Cozad New Venture Competiion.
Kaimin Cai is named as Beckman Institute Graduate Fellow. Congratulations to Kaimin!…
Hanze Ying has been selected as a gold award recipient of 2016 the MRS graduate student awards. Congratulations to Hanze!…
Bacterial hole puncher could be new broad-spectrum antibiotic
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
October 27, 2015
Dr. Li Tang appointed as an assistant professor in EPFL
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
August 1, 2015
Cheng chosen as Faculty Entrepreneurial Fellows
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
July 30, 2015
Led by U. of I. materials science and engineering professor Jianjun Cheng, in collaboration with UCLA professor Gerard Wong, the researchers published their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Li Tang, a former Ph. D student in Professor Cheng’s group, has been appointed as an assistant professor in EPFL | École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Tang Lab. Congratulations to Dr. Tang!…
Prof. Jianjun Cheng has been chosen for the first class of Faculty Entrepreneurial Fellows in the College of Engineering. The Fellows will focus on bringing their work to the world by developing a technology and testing its commercial potential.…
The team lead by Hanze Ying won grand prize in V.Dale Cozad New Venture Competiion
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
July 30, 2015
Cheng chosen as AIMBE Fellow
American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
March 12, 2015
Hanze Ying selected as an 2014 Illinois Technology Foundation Fifty for the Future Awardee
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
March 10, 2015
Hua Wang, PhD student in the Jianjun Cheng research group, has received a Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Student Research Fellowship worth $43k/year to support his graduate studies at the University of Illinois.…
Prof. Jianjun Cheng was induced to the College of Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
Hanze Ying has been selected as a gold award recipient of 2016 the MRS graduate student awards. Congratulations to Hanze!…
Cheng selected as a 2015 ACS-POLY Fellow
Division of Polymer Chemistry, Inc.
March 1, 2015
Polyureas that love to break down
American Chemistry Society
December 8, 2014
Prof. Jianjun Cheng was selected as a 2015 ACS-POLY Fellow.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have figured out how to reverse the characteristics of a key bonding material--polyurea--providing an inexpensive alternative for a broad number of applications...