Dr. Yuhe Yang is a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He obtained his bachelor and master’s degree in Materials Process Engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in 2014 and 2016 and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from National University of Singapore in 2020. Before the current appointment, he works as the Postdoctoral Research Fellow in PolyU. He has substantial research experience in biofabrication, biomaterials and tissue engineering, where he leverages multi-disciplinary approaches to modulate the interaction among the functional compartments including cells, biomaterials and biomolecule ranging from molecular, cellular to tissue scales.

So far, he has published 24 articles (with 11 as first or co-first authors) in prestigious journals including Nat. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Biomaterials, Small. In addition, he has applied 15 patents (11 granted). He has successfully attracted 2 grants as principal investigator from the National Science Foundation of China and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His project “Biomimicking Photocrosslinkable Nanocomposite Bone Graft” has won the Silver Medal at the Special Edition 2021 Inventions Geneva and has been reported by various media such as Ta Kung Pao and HK 01. He has also won the e-Poster Competition in Hong Kong Musculoskeletal & Biomaterials Summit for Young Scholars 2022 (Only 3 awardees in the competition).