Professor & Director
West China School of Pharmacy
Sichuan University
Chengdu, Sichuan, China (People's Republic)
Prof. Xun Sun is the Director & Professor of the Department of Pharmaceutics, at West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University. After postdoctoral training at University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan, she joined the faculty of Sichuan University in 2008 and became a professor in 2012. Prof. Sun’s current research centers on the delivery of vaccines and nucleic acid-based therapeutics, including the transdermal and mucosal delivery of these biopharmaceuticals. She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers as the corresponding author. She filed 42 patents and contributed chapters to 10 books. She is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Controlled Release and Molecular Therapy. She also serves as a member of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia Commission. Prof. Sun was the recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the Royal Society Newton Advanced Fellowship (UK), and the second prize of the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award.
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM US PST
