Expertise
Tissue engineering, biomaterials engineering, microfluidics, organ-on-a-chip engineering, advanced biofabrication, regenerative medicine, high-throughput drug screening, machine learning, stem cell engineering
Research Clusters
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Associate Chair (Graduate)
Chemical Engineering
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Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
Overview
The rising cost of healthcare driven by the increasing expenditures in drug discovery and clinical treatments has become a significant burden to our society while the outcomes of care have not improved. To reverse this trend, the healthcare industry demands innovative biotech solutions that will disrupt the existing methods of care. The field of tissue engineering emerged nearly two decades ago promises to offer human tissues on demand. Realizing this ambitious goal will fundamentally transform modern medicine and change the way we approach drug discovery and clinical treatments. To this end, we strive to develop advanced biofabrication techniques integrated with insights from developmental biology to build human micro-tissue models for predictive drug discovery and to construct functional macro-tissues for tissue regeneration in patients. In this pursuit, we strive to create an environment that will inspire the next generation of researchers and dreamers to solve big challenges in our world by fostering learning, passion, and collaboration. The BZhangLab is always seeking passionate scientists and engineers to join our team and to engage in multidisciplinary collaboration. In the quest to solve the biggest challenge in medicine, we understand “it takes a village to build an organ”. We welcome you to embark on this exciting journey with us!
Highly motivated graduate students who are interested in tissue engineering, microfluidics, organ-on-a-chip, and advanced biofabrication can visit our lab website (www.bzhanglab.com) and reach out to Dr. Boyang Zhang (zhangb97@mcmaster.ca) with your CV, transcript and a brief statement of interest.
- Banting Postdoctoral Fellow – University of Toronto (2018)
- Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry – University of Toronto (2016)
- Bachelor of Science in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering – Georgia Institute of Technology (2010)
- 2022 Ontario Early Career Researcher Award, Ontario Government
- 2021 Lab on a Chip Outstanding Reviewer of 2021, Lab on a Chip journal
- 2020 Special Young Scholar, Global Chinese Chemical Engineering
- 2019 Biofabrication Outstanding Reviewer of 2018, Biofabrication journal
- 2017 Canada’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in Engineering/Medical Science, Canadian Association for Graduate Studies
- 2016 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- 2016 MedTech’s Rising Star, Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry (MD+DI)
Selected
IFlowPlate—A Customized 384-Well Plate for the Culture of Perfusable Vascularized Colon Organoids
Advanced Materials. Wiley
Rajasekar, Shravanthi, Dawn S. Y. Lin, Lyan Abdul, Amy Liu, Alexander Sotra, Feng Zhang, and Boyang Zhang
Lab On A Chip. Royal Society Of Chemistry (Rsc)
Rajasekar, Shravanthi, Dawn S. Y. Lin, Feng Zhang, Alexander Sotra, Alex Boshart, Sergi Clotet-Freixas, Amy Liu, et al.
Se(XY) Matters/ The Importance of Incorporating Sex in Microphysiological Models
Trends In Biotechnology. Elsevier Bv
Kouthouridis, Sonya, Eleanor Robson, Alicia Hartung, Sandeep Raha, and Boyang Zhang.
Lab On A Chip. Royal Society Of Chemistry (Rsc)
Abdul, Lyan, Shravanthi Rajasekar, Dawn S. Y. Lin, Sibi Venkatasubramania Raja, Alexander Sotra, Yuhang Feng, Amy Liu, and Boyang Zhang
Nature Materials
Zhang, Boyang, Miles Montgomery, M. Dean Chamberlain, Shinichiro Ogawa, Anastasia Korolj, Aric Pahnke, Laura A. Wells, et al.
Advances in Organ-on-a-Chip Engineering
Nature Reviews Materials
Zhang, Boyang, Anastasia Korolj, Benjamin Fook Lun Lai, and Milica Radisic
Organ-on-a-Chip Devices Advance to Market
Royal Society Of Chemistry (Rsc)
Zhang, Boyang, and Milica Radisic
