Co-Director
Director, Institute of NanoBioTechnology
Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Translational Tissue Engineering Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Dr. Hai-Quan Mao is the Director of the Institute of NanoBioTechnology (INBT) and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and is a core faculty of the Translational Tissue Engineering Center and at the School of Medicine. He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry from Wuhan University in China in 1988 and 1993, respectively. From 1995 to 1998, he pursued his postdoctoral training in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was a co-principal investigator at Johns Hopkins in Singapore from 1999 to 2003, prior to joining the faculty of Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Mao’s research focuses on developing nanofiber-hydrogel composites for soft tissue remodeling and delivery of stem cells, establishing scalable manufacturing platforms for nanotherapeutics to deliver nucleic acid and protein therapeutics, and engineering biomimetic matrix to program immune responses. Dr. Mao is an associate editor for Biomaterials and serves on the editorial boards of ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering and Journal of Materials Chemistry B. Dr. Mao was the recipient of the National Science Foundation Faculty CAREER Award and elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Dr. Mao is also a Co-Director of the RNA Innovation Center.