Biomaterials & Applications

Supramolecular polymers and hydrogels, biomaterials, controlled drug release, gene therapy, tissue engineering, green low-carbon materials for sustainable development. Development of controlled and targeted delivery systems for chemotherapy, immunotherapy, gene therapy, tissue engineering, and bioimaging applications based on injectable and stimuli-responsive hydrogels and nanocarriers. Converting biomass and biobased polymers and wastes materials into high value-added functional materials for water treatment, resource recovery, and sustainable urban farming.

Digital Medicine & Bioimaging

Establish a medical imaging database and search engine, develop optimized mathematical models and advanced algorithms, extract brain structure and function information from multi-modal images, conduct deep learning predictive analysis, build a digital brain and nervous system information platform based on artificial intelligence and cloud computing, and apply to the accurate diagnosis and personalized treatment of brain and nervous diseases (such as Alzheimer's disease). Biophotonics and advanced medical imaging techniques for screening for mental illness and early breast cancer.

Health & Functional Food

Develop a food chewing robot bionic system to evaluate the safety and functions of food. Develop new functional food and special medical food. Based on 3D printing technology, the development of personalized precision nutrition food. Develop and create new targeted probiotic products to improve the health level of intestinal physiological environment.

Medical Robotics

Develop a series of flexible rehabilitation robots, our robots are based on self-developed compliant actuation, cable transmission and lightweight mechanical designs, which help to achieve portable and affordable rehabilitation; developing a series of compliant, lightweight, and affordable industrial exoskeletons that can assist workers in handling heavy loads, repetitive tasks, and awkward postures.

Smart Medical Devices

Microwave biomedical Radar sensing and AI on non-contact long-term remote monitoring of vital-signals, sleep and behavioral activities for smart elderly care. Pioneering next-generation technologies for the capsule endoscopy platform.