PhD (University of Cambridge)

B.Eng (The University of Hong Kong)

Dr. Duo Zhang currently holds the position as Presidential Young Fellow and Assistant Professor (PI) at School of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Dr. Zhang graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering. He earned a fully funded scholarship from China Scholarship Council (CSC) and successively pursued his graduate studies at University of Oxford and University of Cambridge. Dr. Zhang obtained his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from University of Cambridge, and stayed in Cambridge for a further postdoctoral research experience.

With a keen acumen for scientific advancement, Dr. Zhang has dedicated to novel advanced methods to produce optimized, flexible, functional hierarchical structures for tissue engineering and biomedical fabrication applications, with high-impact journal publications in Bioactive Materials, Advanced Materials Technologies, Biofabrication, Chemistry of Materials, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Scientific Reports, MRS bulletin, etc. His research focuses on additive manufacturing soft tissues and organs scaffolds, interactions between cells and in vitro microenvironment, novel functional materials for biofabrication, in vitro drug testing models, wearable flexible sensors and soft robotics.

1. Abdellah Aazmi#, Duo Zhang#*, Corrado Mazzaglia, Mengfei Yu, Zhen Wang, Huayong Yang, Yan Yan Shery Huang, Liang Ma*. “Biofabrication methods for reconstructing extracellular matrix mimetics”, Bioactive Materials, 31, (2024): 475-496. (Co-first author & correspondent author)
2. Iek Man Lei*, Duo Zhang*, Ji Liu, YunLong Zi, and Yan Yan Shery Huang. “Soft hydrogel shapeability via supportive bath matching in embedded 3D printing”, Advanced Materials Technologies (2023): 2300001. (Co-first author)
3. Duo Zhang, Yaqi Sheng, Nicholas Piano, Theresa Jakuszeit, Edward Cozens, Lingqing Dong, Alexander K. Buell, Andreas Pollet, Iek Man Lei, Wenyu Wang, Eugene Terentjev, and Yan Yan Shery Huang. "Cancer cell migration on straight, wavy, loop and grid microfibre patterns." Biofabrication (2022).
4. Duo Zhang, Pooya Davoodi, Xia Li, Ye Liu, Wenyu Wang, and Yan Yan Shery Huang. "An empirical model to evaluate the effects of environmental humidity on the formation of wrinkled, creased and porous fibre morphology from electrospinning." Scientific reports, 10, no. 1 (2020): 1-9.
5. Yan Yan Shery Huang, Duo Zhang, and Ye Liu. "Bioprinting of three-dimensional culture models and organ-on-a-chip systems." MRS Bulletin, 42, no. 8 (2017): 593-599.
6. Xiaoyue Qi, Ziyong Chang, Duo Zhang, Kellie J. Binder, Sensen Shen, Yan Yan Shery Huang, Yu Bai, Andrew EH Wheatley, and Huwei Liu. "Harnessing Surface-Functionalized Metal–Organic Frameworks for Selective Tumor Cell Capture." Chemistry of Materials, 9, no. 19 (2017): 8052-8056.
7. Elisabeth Gill, Samuel Willis, Magda Gerigk, Paul Cohen, Duo Zhang, Xia Li, and Yan Yan Shery Huang. "Fabrication of designable and suspended microfibers via low-voltage 3D micropatterning." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 11, no. 22 (2019): 19679-19690.
8. Bertulli, Cristina, Magda Gerigk, Nicholas Piano, Ye Liu, Duo Zhang, Thomas Müller, Tuomas J. Knowles, and Yan Yan Shery Huang. "Image-Assisted Microvessel-on-a-Chip Platform for Studying Cancer Cell Transendothelial Migration Dynamics." Scientific Reports 8, no. 1 (2018): 1-14.
9. Ma L, Zhang B, Zhou C, Li Y, Li B, Yu M, Luo Y, Gao L, Zhang D, Xue Q, Qiu Q. “The comparison genomics analysis with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) cells under 3D and 2D cell culture conditions”. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces. 2018 Dec 1;172:665-73.