Dr. Zhong is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin. Before joining UT Austin, he was a Postdoc/Research Scientist in the Prof. Sangeeta Bhatia’s lab in the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he developed inhalable biosensors capable of diagnosing early-stage lung cancer at the bedside and through a simple urine test. Dr. Zhong’s research integrates interdisciplinary approaches to engineer highly modular biomaterials-centric molecular probes and drug delivery systems that harness pathological microenvironment i) to profile disease-related enzyme biomarkers, ii) to enable noninvasive detection and therapeutic assessment of cancer and chronic diseases at the point-of-care, and iii) to achieve tissue- and cell-specific delivery of biologics particularly for gene editing and immunoengineering.