Dr. Fang is an Associate Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 2021. He received his PhD through a joint program supported by CSC Scholarship between Donghua University (State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials) and University of Pittsburgh in 2015. From 2016 to 2021, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and an Assistant Project Scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Fang is the founding member and Associate Editor of the Med-X journal (ESCI). He has been awarded the Shanghai Overseas High-Level Talent Program and the Pujiang Talent Program. He also serves on several academic committees, including TIRMIS-AP, the Vascular Section of the Chinese Anatomical Society, and the Med-X International Academic Conference.

His research interests encompass biomaterials, stem cells and gene therapy, cardiovascular and skeletal muscle tissue repair and regeneration, as well as fundamental and translational research on disease therapy. He has published over 40 SCI-indexed papers in journals including Nat. Biomed. Eng., Nat. Nanotech., Nat. Commun., Adv. Funct. Mater., ACS Nano, and Research, holds multiple authorized Chinese and US patents, and has facilitated the translation of multiple research outcomes into clinical studies. He is hosting more than ten funded projects, including NSFC grants, Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission projects, key/youth interdisciplinary projects, and industry-collaborative horizontal projects.

• 2009.09-2015.09 Joint Ph.D. (CSC), Donghua University and University of Pittsburgh
• 2005.09-2009.07 Bachelor, North University of China

• 2021.06-current Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• 2019.05-2021.05 Assistant Project Scientist, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
• 2016.05-2019.04 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

(1) Development and application of functionalized biomaterials;

(2) Stem cell and gene therapy for cardiovascular and muscular diseases;

(3) Immunoengineering and immunotherapy;

(4) Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

1. Jun Fang^#, Junren Sia^#, Jennifer Soto, Pingping Wang, LeeAnn K. Li, Yuan-Yu Hsueh, Raymond Sun, Kym Francis Faull, James G. Tidball, Song Li^*. Skeletal muscle regeneration via the chemical induction and expansion of myogenic stem cells in situ or in vitro. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 2021, 5(3): 1-16.
2. Zhaowei Chen^#, Hongjun Li^#, Yijie Bian, Zejun Wang, Guojun Chen, Xudong Zhang, Yimin Miao, Di Wen, Jinqiang Wang, Gang Wan, Yi Zeng, Peter Abdou, Jun Fang, Song Li, Cheng-Jun Sun, Zhen Gu^*. Bioorthogonal catalytic patch. Nature Nanotechnology. 2021, 16(8):933-41.
3.  Yeon Sik Choi^#, Yuan-Yu Hsueh^#, Jahyun Koo^#, Quansan Yang^#, Buwei Hu, Zhaoqian Xie, Raudel Avila, Geumbee Lee, Zheng Ning, Claire Liu, Yameng Xu, Young Joong Lee, Jun Fang, Yujun Deng, Song Li^*, John A. Rogers^*. Stretchable, Dynamic Covalent Polymers for Soft, Long-Lived Bioresorbable Electronic Stimulators Designed to Facilitate Neuromuscular Regeneration. Nature communications. 2020, 11(1):1-14. 
4. Muhammad Rafique^#, Muhammad Shehr Yar Ali, Onaza Ali, Jiaying Zhang, Mingyu Li, Yu Zhu, Nasser Shaikho, Rashida Hashim, Muhammad Shafiq, Ruiqi Guo, Yin Yang, Yang Zhu, Jialing Zhang, Zhihong Liu, Jun Fang^*. Harnessing biomaterial-based immunomodulation for cardiac repair and regeneration. Med-X. 2026, 09.
5. Muhammad Rafique^#, Onaza Ali, Muhammad Shehr Yar Ali, Jialing Zhang^*, Muhammad Shafiq^*, Jun Fang^*. Advances in Surface Biofunctionalization and Intelligent Monitoring of Vascular Scaffolds. Research. 2026, 9:1182.
6. Ke Huang^#, Dashuai Zhu^#,  Jennifer Soto^#, Shiqi Hu^#, Jun Fang (共一) ^#, Joyce Huang, Xuexiang Zhang, Junlang Li, Yuan Li, Panagiotis Tasoudis, Shuo Liu, Xuan Mei, Tyler Hoffman, Thomas G. Caranasos, Cunjiang Yu, Zhen Gu, Song Li^*, Ke Cheng^*. Immunomodulatory microneedle patch for cardiac repair in rodent and porcine models of myocardial infarction. Cell Biomaterials. 2025, 1(9): 100152.
7. Jun Fang^#, Jennifer J. Li, Xintong Zhong, Yue Zhou, Randall J. Lee, Ke Cheng, Song Li^*. Engineering Stem Cell Therapeutics for Cardiac Repair. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 2022, 171:56-68.
8. Jun Fang^#, Jaekyung Koh^#, Qizhi Fang^#, Huiliang Qiu, Maani M. Archang, Mohammad Mahdi Hasani-Sadrabadi, Hiromi Miwa, Xintong Zhong, Richard Sievers, Dong-Wei Gao, Dino Di Carlo^*, Randall Lee^*, Song Li^*. Injectable Drug-releasing Microporous Annealed Particle Scaffolds for Treating Myocardial Infarction. Advanced Functional Materials. 2020, 30(43): 202004307.
9. Jun Fang^#, Yuan-Yu Hsueh, Jennifer Soto, Wujin Sun, Jinqiang Wang, Zhen Gu, Ali Khademhosseini, Song Li^*. Engineering Biomaterials with Micro/Nano Technologies for Cell Reprogramming. ACS Nano. 2020, 14(2): 1296-1318. 
10. Jeffrey J. D. Henry^#, Lawrence Delrosario^#, Jun Fang^#, Sze Yue Wong, Qizhi Fang, Richard Sievers, Surya Kotha, Aijun Wang, Diana Farmer, Praneeth Janaswamy, Randall J. Lee, Song Li. Development of Injectable Amniotic Membrane Matrix for Post-Myocardial Infarction Tissue Repair. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 2019, 9(2):19005441.
11. Jun Fang^#, Jialing Zhang^#, Jun Du, Yanjun Pan, Jing Shi, Yongxuan Peng, Weiming Chen, Liu Yuan, Sang-Ho Ye, William R. Wagner, Meng Yin^*, Xiumei Mo^*. Orthogonally Functionalizable Polyurethane with Subsequent Modification with Heparin and Endothelium-Inducing Peptide Aiming for Vascular Reconstruction. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2016, 8 (23):14442-14452. 
12. Jun Fang^#, Sang-Ho Ye, Jing Wang, Ting Zhao, Xiumei Mo^*, Wagner R. Wagner^*. Thiol-click Modification of Cyclic Disulfide Containing Biodegradable Polyurethane Urea Elastomers. Biomacromolecules. 2015, 16(5):1622-33.  ​
13. Jun Fang^#, Sang-Ho Ye, Venkat Shankarraman, Yixian Huang, Xiumei Mo, and William R. Wagner^*. Biodegradable Poly(ester urethane)urea Elastomers with Variable Amino Content for Subsequent Functionalization with Phosphorylcholine. Acta Biomaterialia. 2014, 10:4639-4649.