Sapientia Eminence Professorship

Professor Dai Hongjie is currently Chair Professor in Chemistry at The University of Hong Kong, with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and School of Biomedical Sciences in HKUMed. He is also the J G Jackson and C J Wood Professor of Chemistry (Emeritus) at Stanford University. Professor Dai has made seminal contributions to the fields of nanoscience and nanomedicine, by synthesising new types of carbon nanomaterials, elucidating fundamental physics in one-dimensional systems and opening the biomedical applications of these materials. He pioneered infrared fluorescence imaging and is pursuing clinical translation that can transform the clinical surgical landscape through precise imaging guided tumour resection that benefits numerous cancer patients, and imaging guided surgical navigation that protects healthy vital organs from accidental injury. He is a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Medicine, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor Dai received the APS James C McGroddy Prize for New Materials, the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, the MRS Mid-Career Researcher Award, the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, and the Humboldt Research Award, among others.