Hong-Jun Wang received his first PhD degree in Polymer Chemistry & Physics from the Institute of Polymer Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. He then worked at a Dutch biomedical company, IsoTis NV, and received his second PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Institute for Biomedical Technology, University of Twente, Netherlands. He was a research fellow at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, prior to joining Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, as an assistant professor in Biomedical Engineering. He arose all the way to the full professor and serves as the inaugural Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering since 2018. Meanwhile, he also holds the professor appointment in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the Stevens Institute of Technology. The research interests of his group (www.stevens.edu/wanglab) mainly focus on biomimetic materials design, 3D tissue reconstruction, in vitro tissue-on-a-chip and nanomedicine. His group has contributed a dozen of book chapters and invited reviews, a number of patent applications, over 100 invited talks and seminars and more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in Advanced Materials, Nature Comm, PNAS, ACS Nano and Biomaterials. He is also a recipient of several awards including Jess N. Davis Award for Excellent Research (2021), Provost’s Award for Academic Entrepreneurship & Enterprise Development (2017), New Jersey Innovators Award (2016), etc. Dr. Wang was also elected as the fellow to the National Academy of Inventors.