Dr. He Dong obtained her PhD degree in the Department of Chemistry at Rice University under the supervision of Prof. Jeffrey Hartgerink in 2008. She did her postdoc work in Prof. Elliot Chaikof group at Emory University and Prof. Ting Xu group at the University of California at Berkeley.
She started her independent career in the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science at Clarkson University in 2012 and joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Texas at Arlington in 2018.
Her research is focused on biomimetic design and supramolecular assembly of soft matter nanomaterials for anticancer and antimicrobial therapy development. She received the NSF Faculty Early Career Award for her work on the design and self-assembly of antimicrobial peptides, Chinese Association for Biomaterials (CAB) Young Investigator Award and recently named as an Emerging Investigator of Journal of Materials Chemistry for the development of stimuli-responsive cell penetrating nanomaterials.