2023 Bioactive Materials Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Prof. Xuesi Chen
Published 20 October, 2023
Bioactive Materials Lifetime Achievement Award, an award from the journal Bioactive Materials (IF 2022: 18.9). The annual Bioactive Materials Lifetime Achievement Award was established in 2021 to recognize excellence in research and development in the field. It is presented to the person judged to have demonstrated excellence and leadership in bioactive materials, including basic science and translation to practice. Each year the general bioactive materials community is invited to nominate suitable award candidates who should be world leaders in the field of bioactive materials, and whose accomplishments in discovery and translation to practice are unsurpassed. All candidates are placed on a ballot, which is then considered by the selection committee. The candidate with the most points was chosen as the Lifetime Achievement Award winner. In 2023, the winner is Prof. Xuesi Chen from Changchun Institute Of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy Of Sciences, Changchun, China.
Biosketch of the winner:
Prof. Xuesi Chen
Xuesi Chen received his Ph.D. at Waseda University, Japan, in 1997, and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, in 1999. He has been a professor at CIAC, CAS, since 1999. His research interests focus on the development and biomedical application of biodegradable polymers and smart biomaterials, mainly based on polyesters, polypeptides, polycarbonates, and their copolymers.