Assistant Research Scientist
Johns Hopkins University
Xizhen Lian is an Assistant Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University. He received a PhD in chemistry from Texas A&M University studying the enzyme encapsulation and delivery by metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and the biomedical applications. He conducted postdoctoral training at UT Southwestern Medical Center under the advice of Prof. Daniel Siegwart on lipid nanoparticle (LNP) engineering for in vivo mRNA delivery and gene editing, with a specific focus on bone marrow and hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). At JHU, he bridges the effort of Whiting School of Engineering and School of Medicine to pursue the clinical translation of LNP and in vivo gene editing technologies.