Yi Kuang, PhD
Yi Kuang is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She received her B.S. in Biotechnology from Sun Yat-Sen University and her M.Phil in Bioengineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Brandeis University under the supervision of Prof. Bing Xu, studying controlled supramolecular assembly. She worked at the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application at Kyoto University, first as an Interdisciplinary Human Frontier Science Program Postdoctoral Fellow and then as a JSPS Research Fellow. She was awarded with several General Research Fund from RGC of Hong Kong and received research support from HS Chau Foundation and Fei Chi En Education and Research Fund. She was elected as Early Career Advisory Board (ECAB) of ACS Synthetic Biology in 2023. Her research are focused on the engineering of high performance synthetic mRNA for mRNA vaccine and for mRNA-based logic gate.