Wei Tao#
| Membership Number: | 7244 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.weitaolab.com/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4277-3728 |
| X: | @WeiTaoLab |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - now, Farokhzad Family Distinguished Chair for Innovation (Endowed Chair), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Teaching Hospital of Harvard Medical School, USA
- 2025 - now, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University, USA
- 2021 - 2025, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University, USA
- 2018 - 2021, Instructor, Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University, USA
- 2016 - 2018, Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University, USA
- 2016 - 2018, Postdoctoral Fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Teaching Hospital of Harvard Medical School, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Hydrogel
- mRNA medicine
- Nanomedicine
- Biomaterials
- Gene and drug delivery
- siRNA nanoparticle
- Translational medicine and research
- Nanotechnology
- Aging-related diseases
- Biomedical engineering
Honours and Awards
- 2025, Elected Member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe)
- 2025, Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), USA
- 2025, DoD Reconstructive Transplant Research Program (RTRP) Investigator-Initiated Research Award, USA
- 2025, DoD Lupus Research Program (LRP) Idea Award, USA
- 2024, Co-Director of Nano Immune-Imaging Core, NIH P01-funded Core, USA
- 2024, UNSW RNA Institute Honorary Visiting Professorship, Australian
- 2024, LEO Foundation Research Grant, Denmark
- 2024, American Society of Transplantation (AST) Career Transition Grant - Translational Science, USA
- 2023, American Lung Association Courtney Cox Cole Investigator & Cancer Discovery Award, USA
- 2023, American Heart Association (AHA) Transformational Project Award, USA
- 2023, Health Technology Innovator Award, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA
- 2023, Farokhzad Family Distinguished Chair Professorship, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA
- 2022, Senior Editorial Board Member, Materials Today (Elsevier)
- 2022, Chemical Society Reviews Emerging Investigator Lectureship Award, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2021 - 2022, Angewandte Chemie (Wiley) Most Outstanding Referee
- 2021, Materials Today (Elsevier) Rising Star Award
- 2021 - now, Global Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate, Web of Science (since 2021)
- 2020, MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (TR35 China)
- 2020 - now, Advisory Board Member, Matter (Cell Press)
- 2019 - now, World's Top 2% Scientists, Mendeley Data from Elsevier (Year-List since 2019; Career-List since 2023)
