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Associate Professor Lifeng Kang is a pharmaceutical scientist at the University of Sydney School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health. He leads the Kang Lab which develops micro-scale and 3-D-printing technologies for drug delivery and regenerative medicine, and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy courses.
Education & career:
- BSc & MSc – China Pharmaceutical University (Nanjing, China)
- PhD – National University of Singapore (2006, drug delivery)
- Post-doctoral fellow – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007-2009, NUS-OPF Fellowship)
- Lecturer & Programme Director – National University of Singapore (2009-2017)
- Lecturer → Senior Lecturer → Associate Professor – University of Sydney (2017-present)
- Visiting Scholar – Stanford University (2019)
Research focus: Microfabricated drug-delivery systems, 3-D printing of personalised medicines, dissolvable and hydrogel-forming microneedles, transdermal vaccination and cosmeceuticals, silk-fibroin and peptide biomaterials, organoid models for toxicology, and machine-learning-guided formulation design.
Publications & impact: 86 peer-reviewed articles (65 first/corresponding), >4,600 citations, H-index 40, listed in Stanford/Elsevier global top-2 % scientists 2022-2024. Recent work appears in Nature Nanotechnology, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, Journal of Controlled Release, Analytical Chemistry and Biomaterials Advances.
Innovation & translation: 10 patent families (5 granted, 3 licensed to industry); doctoral students have spun out two start-ups in 3-D-printed pharmaceuticals and microneedle devices. Current grants target osteoarthritis pain, skin depigmentation, paediatric IV stability and needle-free vaccination.
Leadership & service: Vice-Chair (ANZ) Dissolution Research Presentation International 2023; 2nd-Year BPharm Coordinator; editorial boards of Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Nano Convergence and others; reviewer for 40+ journals.
Teaching & supervision: 14 years’ experience, primary supervisor of 15 PhD/MPhil students and >50 honours/project students; teaches drug delivery, formulation science and pharmaceutical analysis; research interest in mastery learning and formative assessment.
