Prof. Dr. Jiantao Zhang currently serves as a full professor at the Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, a part of the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) in Ningbo, China. He earned his B.S. in applied chemistry and Ph.D. in polymer chemistry and physics from Wuhan University. He was awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and later the Carl Zeiss Fellowship at the University of Jena, Germany. Following this, he served as a research assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He then transitioned to the pharmaceutical industry, working as a formulation scientist at Teva and subsequently as a manager at BASF. He also holds an MBA from New York University. His research focuses on advanced drug delivery systems, materials science, and pharmaceutical formulations.