Ø About Ruijiao

Associate Professor
Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240, China
Email: drj021@sjtu.edu.cn
Phone: +86-15902110691
Ruijiao Dong was born and raised in Mianyang, Sichuan Province of China. Ruijiao Dong completed his BSc degree in Materials Science at Wuhan Textile University in 2006 and his MSc degree in Polymer Chemistry at Donghua University in 2009. Then, he joined Prof. Xinyuan Zhu’s group in the Department of Chemistry at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and obtained his PhD degree in 2014. From 2015 to 2020, he has been a Research Associate in Andrew Livingston’s group at Imperial College London. He is now an Associate Professor in Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His current research interests focus on the design, synthesis and site-selective functionalization of precision polymers, sequence-controlled polymers, and multidimensional nanoscale biomaterials, as well as their applications in diagnosis and treatment of cancer, immunotherapy, and gene therapy, etc.
He is now a member of American Chemistry Society (ACS), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and Chinese Chemical Society (CCS), as well as an ambassador of Society of Chemical Industry (SCI). Very recently, he has been appointed as an Early-career editorial board for Environmental Science & Ecotechnology (ESE), a Guest editor for Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering (Special Issue on Materials, Energy and Environment, 2021), a Guest editor for Molecules, and a Guest editor for Frontiers in Chemistry. Recent awards include National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars (Overseas) (2021), Shanghai High-Level Overseas Talents Introduction Program (2020), Sir William Wakeham Award at Imperial College London (2019), Outstanding Graduate at SJTU (2014), Academic Youth Award for Doctoral Candidate (Ministry of Education of China, 2012), National Scholarship for Excellent Doctoral Student (Ministry of Education of China, 2012), etc.
Work Experience
Nov. 2020–now Associate Professor
Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Jun. 2015–Oct. 2020 Postdoc
Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
Sep. 2014–May 2015 Postdoc
School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Mar. –Jun. 2010 Assistant Researcher
Department of Lifestyle at Philips Asia Research, China
Education
2009–2014 PhD in Polymer Chemistry and Physics
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
2006–2009 MSc in Polymer Chemistry and Physics
Donghua University, China
2002–2006 BSc in Materials Science
Wuhan Textile University, China
Honors and Awards
2021 National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars (Overseas)
2021 Shanghai High-Level Overseas Talents Introduction Program
2019 2019 Sir William Wakeham Award (by Imperial College London)
2019 Oral Presentation Prize at Euro Biomaterials 2019
2017 Oral Presentation Prize at 24th CSCST-SCI conference (by Society of Chemical Industry)
2014 Outstanding Graduate (by SJTU)
2014 Special Award of State Key Lab. of Metal Matrix Composites Scholarship (by SJTU)
2014 First-Class OMRON Scholarship (by OMRON Corporation)
2013 First Award of State Key Lab. of Metal Matrix Composites Scholarship (by SJTU)
2013 First Award of “ZHAOZHUMULAN” Scholarship (by SJTU)
2012 Academic Youth Award for Doctoral Candidate (by Ministry of Education, China)
2012 National Scholarship for Excellent Doctoral Student (by Ministry of Education, China)
2012 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Cultivation Fund (by SJTU)
2012 Special Award of State Key Lab. of Metal Matrix Composites Scholarship (by SJTU)
2012 Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship (by SJTU)
2008 Excellent Social Practice Scholarship (by Donghua University)
2007 First Award of the Eleventh Academic Thesis Competition (by Donghua University)
2006 Second Award of Outstanding Bachelor's Degree Thesis (by Hubei Province, China)