Dr. Ding has an interdisciplinary education background from biotechnology to pharmaceutics, and biomaterials science and engineering. His research focuses on the development of biocompatible carrier-based nanomedicines, transdermal drug delivery systems and microfluidics-based technologies for multimodal treatments (e.g., chemotherapy, phototherapy and immunotherapy) of various diseases including cancers and inflammations. Dr. Ding has published nearly 30 SCI papers, including 17 of them with him as the (co-)corresponding/first author in top journals such as Adv. Mater., ACS Nano, Biomaterials, Chem. Eng. J., Nano Lett., and J. Control. Release. He also published one chapter of an international book regarding microfluidics. He has been granted 5 invention patents by the United States, China, Japan and the Europe, and has won several awards including the Patent Excellence Award of China (2020) and Science and Technology Progress Award of Taizhou City ( First Prize) (2015). Dr. Ding warmly welcomes students interested in the research of biomaterials, drug delivery systems and microfluidics to join the lab. He also welcomes enterprises that have needs in the design and improvement of formulations to cooperate, including the development and application of traditional formulations (controlled-release microspheres, hydrogels, etc.) as well as nanomedicines, and transdermal formulations such as microneedles.

2024-present, Associate Professor, Academy of Pharmacy, XJTLU, Suzhou, China

2019-2024, Professor, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, China

2016-2019, Postdoctoral Associate, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), Singapore

2015-2016, Project Officer/Research Fellow, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

(1) Synergistic tumor treatment via biocompatible nanomedicines (Chemical therapy, phototherapy, immunotherapy etc.)

(2) Transdermal drug delivery systems (Patches, microneedles etc.)

(3) Oral and topical drug delivery systems (Sustained-release microparticles etc.)

(4) Microfluidics and their applications in biomedicine

(1) Patent Excellence Award of China (2020)

(2) The Science and Technology Progress Award of Taizhou City (First Prize) (2015)

(3) Best Poster Award, 6th Materials Research Society-Singapore Conference on Advanced Materials (2014)