Biography:
Dr. Yan studied Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at National University of Singapore and graduated as a Bachelor in 2012. She then joined Professor Du Yanan’s laboratory at Tsinghua University to research on 3D cell culture and biomaterials. She received her Master’s degree and PhD degree from Biomedical Engineering at Tsinghua University in 2015 and 2018 respectively. She then co-founded Beijing CytoNiche Biotechnology Co., Ltd. to develop and commercialize a novel 3D macroporous dissolvable microcarrier for large-scale cell expansion. She has published nearly twenty research articles in SCI (E) journals and books, as well as applied for over 60 patents.
Title : Dissolvable 3D macroporous microcarrier based large-scale manufacturing system for cell and gene therapy