Asst Prof. Bonnie Danqing Zhu

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, School of Engineering

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Bonnie Zhu joins the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) as an Assistant Professor in Spring 2023. Bonnie completed her Ph.D. at Stanford University in Bioengineering. Her research employs materials chemistry, protein engineering, and stem cell approaches to develop models of tissue development that capture the dynamic complexity of cell-ECM interactions. She then continued her training as CIRM Postdoctoral Fellow and Siebel Scholar at UC Berkeley and UCSF. Her postdoctoral work focuses on using protein engineering and computational approaches to engineer safe and targeted therapeutic gene delivery vectors for treatment of neurological diseases. Currently at HKUST, her group focuses on developing next-generation of gene therapy, using a combination of molecular engineering and machine-learning models. The extension of such integration will have broad utility in the development of novel delivery vehicles for therapeutic applications of many diseases in the near future.