Li Tang PhD

Li Tang is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Materials Science & Engineering at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Li Tang received his BS in Chemistry from Peking University in China in 2007 and his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, in 2012, under the supervision of Prof. Jianjun Cheng. He was an Irvington Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Darrell Irvine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before he joined EPFL in 2016.

His research focuses on immunoengineering through multi-dimensional approaches, which include methods of chemical, metabolic, and mechanical engineering, with the goal of creating new immunotherapies against cancer and infectious diseases. Dr Tang appears on MIT Technology Review's “Top 35 Innovators under Age 35” list for the China region (2020), is a Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigator (2019), and is a recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) starting grant (2018), a Nano Research Young Innovator Award (NR 45 under 45 in the world) (2018), and an Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Cancer Research Institute (2013).