Honors and Awards PhRMA Foundation Research Starter Award, 2017 Lloyd Mayer Scholar, 2015 Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America Career Award, 2015 McGee-Wagner Interdisciplinary Research Award, 2014 Top Reviewer of Elsevier, Reed Elsevier Publication Group, 2011 Jorge Heller Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010 Graduate Student Symposium Award, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, 2010 Excellent Graduate Award, Wuhan University, 2007

Biomaterials Intestinal Stem Cells Nanotechnology Drug Delivery

Dawn Kingsbury, Liping Sun, Yijun Qi, Jorrell Fredericks, Qun Wang, Michael Wannemuehler, Albert Jergens, Karin Allenspach. Optimizing the Development and Characterization of Canine Small Intestinal Crypt Organoids as a Research Model. In preparation. Liping Sun, Yijun Qi, Jorrell Fredericks, Albert Jergens, Michael Wannemuehler, and Qun Wang*. Growth of Miniguts Isolated from Altered Schaedler Flora Mice and Conventional Mice. In preparation. Liping Sun, Yijun Qi, Jorrell Fredericks, Albert Jergens, Michael Wannemuehler, and Qun Wang*. Effect of Cytokines on the Growth of Miniguts of Altered Schaedler Flora and Conventional Mice. In preparation. Zahra Davoudi, Nitya Poovaiah, Haisheng Peng, Balaji Narasimhan and Qun Wang*. Nanocarriers through Blood–brain Barrier to Treat Neurodegenerative Diseases. In preparation. Zahra Davoudi, Nathan Peroutka-Bigus, Bryan Bellaire, Michael Wannemuehler, Balaji Narasimhan, Qun Wang*. Intestinal Organoids Containing PLGA Nanoparticles for the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Submitted. Martin Asama, Alex Hall, Yijun Qi, Branden Moreau, Heidi Walthier, Matthew Schaschwary, Blaine Bristow, Qun Wang*. Alternative Foaming Agents for Topical Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis. Submitted. Chengcheng Yin, Gu Cheng, Zahra Davoudic, Xin Xing, Xin Yu, Xin Cheng, Hongbing Deng, Zubing Li, Qun Wang*. Advanced Silk Fibroin Materials for Cartilage Tissue Engineering. Invited Review. Submitted.