Dr. Wen Zhang was born in Shandong, China. He received his B.S. degree from Tianjin University, China, in Pharmaceutical Science in 2006, and his Ph.D. degree from Georgia State University, USA, in Chemistry in 2012. In 2014, he joined Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School as a postdoctoral research associate. In 2019, he started his independent research lab at the Indiana University School of Medicine, where he is currently an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Dr. Wen Zhang’s research lab focuses on the development of mirror-image nucleic acids as advanced therapeutic molecules, including innovative aptamer identification and nanoparticle design for cancer treatment.