Leipzig Bioengineering Group

Biography

I come from Xi’an, a city in the north of China where I also completed a Bachelor Degree of Engineering at Xi’an Shiyou University. During my undergraduate studies, I gained vauluable chemical engineering knowledge. I am an outdoors person: climbing, hiking and traveling are all favorite activities of mine. Every holiday I make it a point to travel to new places and I have a dream that one day I can travel around world, experience different cultures, learn new things firsthand and continue to broaden my horizons. Studying in America, there are challenges I have to face every day. Maybe it is a little bit tough, but I enjoy it, because challenge is the critical factor that drives me to keep going.

Education

B.Eng., Chemical Engineering, Xi’an Shiyou University, Xi’an, China, July 2009

Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH, 2015

Publications/Book Chapters

1. H Li*, TR Ham*, N Neill, AE Morhman, MA Farag. A Koenig, ND Leipzig. “A hydrogel bridge incorporating immobilized growth factors and neural stem/progenitor cells to treat spinal cord injury.” Advanced Healthcare Materials. 5(7):802-12. 2016. 2016. LINK
2. H Li, A Koenig, P Sloan, ND Leipzig. “In Vivo Assessment of Guided Neural Stem Cell Differentiation in Growth Factor Immobilized Chitosan Hydrogel Scaffolds.” Biomaterials. 35(33): 9049-9057. 2014. LINK
3. H Li, DP Visco, ND Leipzig. “Confirmation of Predicted Activity for Factor XIa Inhibitors from a Virtual High-Throughput-Screening Approach.” AIChE Journal. 60(8):2741–2746. 2014. LINK
4. H Li, A Wijekoon, ND Leipzig. “Tethering of perfluorocarbons to photopolymerizable chitosan enhances 3D survival and differentiation of neural stem cells.”Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 42(7):1456-69, 2014. 2014. LINK
5. H Li, A Wijekoon, ND Leipzig. “3D differentiation of neural stem cells in macroporous photopolymerizable hydrogel scaffolds.” PLoS ONE. 7(11): e48824. 2012. LINK