He earned his bachelor�s degree at Wuhan University, China, and his Ph.D. at the University of Alberta, Canada. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School. The central piece of his research work is to develop strategies for the functionalization of the nanometer-sized materials to expand their application potentiality in Biomedical/Chemical Sciences. Tel: (618) 201-0665; email: ygao@megiprocess.com.