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Principal Investigator
SHAO, Baihao (邵柏豪)Email: [email protected]
Tel: +852 39435340 Office: SHB601D Baihao was born in Zhejiang, China, and grew up in the cities of Wenzhou, Jinhua and Hangzhou. He received his bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Zhejiang University in 2015, where he worked on fluorescent probes for endogenous gases detection under the supervision of Profs. Xin Li and Yongzhou Hu. Following another year of research in the same lab, Baihao moved to New England of the United States and joined the research group of Prof. Ivan Aprahamian at Dartmouth College in 2016. While there, he focused on the mechanistic investigation of bistable hydrazone photoswitches and the development of hydrazone-based switches, materials and molecular machines. After completing his doctorate in 2021 and a stint in Prof. Yuan Ping's lab, Baihao moved to the England to begin his postdoctoral journey in the group led by Prof. Dame Molly Stevens FRS FREng first at Imperial College London in 2022 and later transfer together with the group to Oxford in 2024. His research there aimed to better translate photoresponsive therapeutics for clinical applications, where he implemented bioelectronic devices to enhance in vivo delivery of light and drug carriers (including living cells) to optimize the ADME properties of phototherapeutics. In August 2025, Baihao joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong to kick off his independent career. |
Current Position
2025/8 – now | Vice-Chancellor Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China Professional Experience
2024/4 – 2025/7 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery & Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Supervisor: Prof. Dame Molly M. Stevens 2022/1 – 2024/3 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Bioengineering & Materials, Imperial College London, London, UK Supervisor: Prof. Dame Molly M. Stevens Education
2016/8 – 2021/6 | Ph. D. in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA Supervisor: Prof. Ivan Aprahamian 2011/9 – 2015/6 | B. S. in Pharmacy, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Supervisors: Profs. Xin Li (李新) and Yongzhou Hu (胡永洲) Awards and Honors 2025 | CUHK Vice-Chancellor Early Career Professorship 2024 | Foresight Fellowship in Nanotechnology 2022 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship 2021 | Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad 2021 | The Hannah T. Croasdale Graduate Scholar Award 2019 | The Arthur Dunham Holmes 1906 Memorial Graduate Fellowship |