Dr. Bingkun Bao is a tenure-track Assistant Professor and Ph.D. advisor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research focuses on the design, fabrication, and biomedical applications of hydrogel materials. As the first or corresponding author, he has published in leading journals such as Nature Materials, Advanced Materials, Cell Discovery, and Progress in Polymer Science. He has also filed over ten Chinese/PCT patents, with seven already granted. During his postdoctoral tenure, he served as the principal investigator in various projects funded by the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF, the Shanghai "Super Postdoc" Incentive Program, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation-Special Fund, and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation-General Fund. He was awarded the Gold Prize in the National Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.

2025–Present: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2020–2024: Postdoctoral Researcher, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Hydrogel materials, 3D printing, Wearable devices, Functional tissues and organs

1. Y. Huang, T. Chen, C. Ren, B. Bao*, R. Huang, Y. Sun, C. Yu, Y. Yang, W.T. Wong, Q. Zeng, L. Jiang, T. Liu, Q. Lin*, L. Zhu, Y. Liao*, High-strength gelatin hydrogel scaffold with drug loading remodels the inflammatory microenvironment to enhance osteoporotic bone repair, Adv. Mater. 2025, 10.1002/adma.202501051. 
2. C. Ren, W. Chen, Y. Liao*, Y. Huang, C. Yu, T. Chen, Q. Zeng, Y. Yang, R. Huang, T. Liu, L. Jiang, B. Bao*, L. Zhu, Q. Lin*, Reinforcing gelatin hydrogels via in situ phase separation and enhanced interphase bonding for advanced 3D fabrication, Adv. Mater. 2024, 2416432.
3. B. Bao^#, Q. Zeng^#, K. Li^#, J. Wen^#, Y. Zhang, Y. Zheng, R. Zhou, C. Shi, T. Chen, C. Xiao, B. Chen, T. Wang, K. Yu, Y. Sun, Q. Lin*, Y. He, S. Tu, L. Zhu*, Rapid fabrication of physically robust hydrogels, Nat. Mater. 2023, 22, 1253-1260.
4. T. Liu, B. Bao*, Y. Li, Q. Lin, L. Zhu*, Photo-responsive polymers based on ο-Nitrobenzyl derivatives: from structural design to applications, Prog. Polym. Sci. 2023, 146, 101741.
5. D. Zhang^#, Z. Chen^#, Z. Du^#, B. Bao^#, N. Su^#, X. Chen*, Y. Ge, Q. Lin, L. Yang, Y. Hua, S. Wang, X. Hua, F. Zuo, N. Li, R. Liu, L. Jiang, C. Bao, Y. Zhao, J. Loscalzo, Y. Yang*, L. Zhu*, Design of a palette of SNAP-tag mimics of fluorescent proteins and their use as cell reporters, Cell Discov. 2023, 9, 56.
6. W. Zhang^#, B. Bao^#, F. Jiang^#, Y. Zhang, R. Zhou, Y. Lu, S. Lin, Q. Lin*, X. Jiang*, L. Zhu*, Promoting oral mucosal wound healing with a hydrogel adhesive based on a phototriggered S-nitrosylation coupling reaction, Adv. Mater. 2021, 33, 2105667.