IBN Executive Director Jackie Ying Elected AAAS Fellow

Professor Jackie Y. Ying, executive director of A*STAR’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

AsianScientist (Nov. 30, 2015) – Nanotechnology expert Professor Jackie Y. Ying, executive director of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Ying’s peers nominated her for her remarkable contributions to nanotechnology and bioengineering, particularly for the design and synthesis of nanomaterials and nanodevices for biomedical and catalytic applications.

“Jackie Ying has repeatedly demonstrated a unique ability to select an important societal problem, design a material at the molecular and supra-molecular levels in order to address that problem, and finally to actually synthesize that material and demonstrate that it exhibits the requisite properties to solve the problem,” said Professor Kenneth A. Smith, Chair of the IBN Scientific Advisory Board and Edwin R. Gilliland Professor of Chemical Engineering (Emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Founded in 1848, AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society. This year 347 members have been awarded the distinction of Fellow because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.

“I am honored to be elected as a Fellow of the AAAS, which has made major contributions in its mission to advance science and serve society. My lab has focused on establishing nanotechnology as a tool box with unique properties and functionalities to tackle various scientific challenges. We hope that the new biomedical and green chemistry breakthroughs would have a significant impact on society,” said Ying.

“Jackie Ying has taken to a new level a total-system understanding and application of materials chemistry. The impact of the innovative basic science and engineering synthesis pathways that she has developed is amplified by their translation into commercially applied up-scaling and new process engineering concepts.” said Professor Galen D. Stucky, Co-Chair of the IBN Scientific Advisory Board and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and of Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Stucky also noted the equal importance of Ying’s outreach role, as a mentor and model for aspiring professional students and scientists.

Ying’s research is interdisciplinary in nature. Her laboratory has created novel nanoporous materials, nanocomposites, and nanodevices. These new systems are designed for applications ranging from pharmaceuticals synthesis, green chemistry, energy storage, to nanomedicine, drug delivery systems, cell and tissue engineering, biosensors and medical diagnostics.

Ying has authored over 340 articles with a h index of 64, and presented over 400 invited lectures at international conferences. She has over 150 primary patents issued or pending, and has served on the Advisory Boards of seven start-up companies and two venture capital funds. Ying is Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Nano Today.

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Source: A*STAR.
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