Yuping Bao is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Alabama. She received her B.S. degree in Chemistry from the East China University of Science and Technology in 1998 and her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Washington in 2006. She has been working on designing novel multifunctional nanostrcutures for various biological and biomedical applications, including magnetic drug screening platform using transmembrane proteins as screening targets to screen complex matrices, compound formulation strategies for desirable applications, etc. Much of her work is directly related to the engineering of material interfaces, bridging the knowledge gaps between biomedical applications and material functionalities.