Dr. Hu Yang Department Chair Linda & Bipin Doshi Dept of Chem & Biochemical Eng Missouri S&T, Rolla MO BS Polymer '98, Sichuan University, China   PhD ChE ’04, University of Akron, Ohio

Dr. Hu Yang is the Linda and Bipin Doshi Endowed Chair of Linda and Bipin Doshi Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He came to Rolla in August 2020, from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) where he had been the Qimonda Endowed Chair in chemical and life science engineering, biomedical engineering, and pharmaceutics since 2005.

Dr. Yang received his bachelor’s degree in Polymers at Sichuan University in China in 1998. He earned his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Akron in Ohio in 2004. Between 2004-5, he conducted postdoctoral research in pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Engineering, materials science, medicine and pharmaceuticals meet in Dr. Yang’s research. He is internationally known for his interdisciplinary research, which allows Dr. Yang to blend pharmaceutics with engineering to create a new generation of therapeutics and formulations for cancer therapy, ocular diseases such as glaucoma, and cardiovascular disease such as atherosclerosis. Dr. Yang also explores non-invasive routes of administration for chronic disease medication management, such as for diabetes. One of his research areas, engineering dendrimers, involves highly branched, three-dimensional molecules, to create nanostructure materials that could be used in a number of ways depending on the medical need.

As a researcher, Dr. Yang has garnered more than $10 million in research support, including more than $5.5 million for research in which he was primary investigator. His research has resulted in more than 80 peer-reviewed articles in high impact journals, which are often cited as reference by others in the field.

Dr. Yang serves on study sections for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and review panels for the National Science Foundation (NSF). He is an associate editor of Materials Express and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Biological Engineering, International Journal of Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials, and Smart Materials in Medicine.

Dr. Yang received a CAREER award from the NSF in 2010 and the prestigious Wallace H. Coulter Young Investigator Award in 2009. He is ranked in the top 2% in research productivity, amongst all engineering faculty nationally, per a recent Stanford study.