EBM Interview: Jianliang Shen
Published 27 February, 2025
Jianliang Shen received his Ph.D. degree from Sun Yat-Sen University in 2014 and completed his postdoctoral at Houston Methodist Hospital Research Institute in 2017. Then, he started independent research work as a full professor at Wenzhou Medical University. His current research is focused on the hybrid biomaterial development of therapeutics and technologies to advance cancer immunotherapy and tissue engineering. Our team's passion and motivation for research comes from the hope that we can bring good news to patients through the cross-disciplinary means of materials, chemistry and pharmacy. He has over 200 peer-reviewed publications in Nature Biotechnology, Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and others. In addition, 40 papers were selected as “ESI highly cited papers”. His H-index records 59 (Google Scholar).
Jianliang Shen
Professor at Wenzhou Medical University
He was born in and grew up in Zhejiang, China. In addition to academic research, his most interesting things in daily life are cooking for his family, traveling with his 8-year-old son, and playing electronic games. In daily life, he often reads some easy-to-understand but interesting books and animations, such as how animals and plants in nature can achieve self-rescue behaviors, and based on this, he looks for new methods and solutions for human-related diseases.
Here is the interview we did with him
1. Could you briefly introduce your current research field?
Our research group mainly focuses on the construction of inorganic-organic hybrid materials, combining the respective advantages of inorganic and organic materials, or making up for their shortcomings, to explore some biomedical applications, such as ， the applications in tumor immunotherapy and tissue engineering.
2. What obstacles or difficulties have you encountered in your research work? How did you overcome these difficulties?
During our research, we may encounter some phenomena or results that are difficult for us to explain. We usually discuss and explain these problems through the best scientists in their fields from all over the world.
3. What attracted you to join the BAM editorial Board team?
First of all, it is a pleasure to work with the most active scientists in this field. At the same time, I can also see the most cutting-edge scientific research and learn a lot of new ideas and cutting-edge technologies.
4. What are your expectations for the future development of Bioactive Materials and its promotion of related fields?
BAM will occupy one of the most important positions in the biomaterials field. A small suggestion is to accept some clinical transformation-related work, so that the scope of the journal can cover from basic research to clinical translation. Thus, BAM will play a role in promoting the biomedical field.
5. What is your greatest hobby outside of scientific work?
In addition to academic research, his most interesting things in daily life are cooking for his family, traveling with his 8-year-old son, and playing electronic games. Sometimes I go out with some friends to have a drink and relax.
6. How do you balance scientific research work and personal life?
I will improve my efficiency when I work. Work is just work and it is just a part of life.
7. What do you think is the most important quality for researchers?
We need to consider the particularity of scientific research. Scientific research is often full of uncertainty and failure is common, so tenacity and stress resistance may be very important.
8. What advice do you have for young scholars who are determined to engage in scientific research?
Do research and topics you are interested in.
