Ninghao "Eric" Zhu

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Assistant Professor

Contact Information

Education

Ph.D. , Biomedical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2022
B.Eng., Biomedical Engineering, City Univerity of Hong Kong, 2027

Research Interests

Zhu's research focuses on decoding human diseases via pioneering biosensing and tissue engineering technologies. He develops single molecule nanobiosensors to visualize the real-time RNA dynamics in live cells, revealing the diseaes mechanisms at the transcriptomic level and identifying potential therapeutic targets. Zhu recapitulates human disease models in vitro using tissue-engineered 3D organ-on-chip models. Focusing on modeling human micovasculature, his organ-on-chip models provide pwerful platforms to study blood vessel inflammation and drug delivery. By integrating the cutting-edge technologies in biosensing and tissue-engineered human disease models, Zhu's research prvides crucial insights into the processes of cancer metastasis, Alzheimer's disease and aging. His work empower the early diseaes diagnosis and development of new therapeutic treatments.

Academic Highlights

Zhu has authored more that 12 peer-reviewed publications, including papers in Nature Materials and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (PNAS). He serves as a frequent reviewer of Biosensors and Bioelectronics and SLAS Technology and has reviewed more than 25 manuscripts. He received the best conference paper award at the IEEE International Confernece in Nano/Molecular Medicine and Engineering (IEEE-NANOMED) in 2021.