Member
Project Assistant Professor
Chun Yin LAU
Education
| 2021.12 | Ph.D, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University |
| 2014.6 | MPharm, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Bath |
Positions and Employment
| 2026 | Project Assistant Profesor, Department of Materials Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo |
| 2025 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Materials Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo |
| 2022 - 2025 | JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Materials Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo |
| 2020 - 2021 | Researcher, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University |
| 2016 - 2020 | MSCA-ESR fellow, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University |
License
| 2016.02 | UK Pharmacist License (Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council) |
Awards
| 2024.07 | The 40th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Drug Delivery System Journal Award |
Research Grants (as PI)
| 2025 - 2027 | Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research KAKENHI, 25K23555 |
Selected Papers
- C. Y. J. Lau, H. Kinoh, X. Liu, J. Feng, F. Aulia, K. Taniwaki, N. Qiao, S. Ogura, M. Naito, K. Miyata, Structurally dynamic polyplexes enhance sentinel lymph node delivery of antisense oligonucleotides to inhibit breast cancer recurrence and metastasis. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 147(30) 26286-26297 (2025) (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c04234)
- S. Uchida, C. Y. J. Lau, M. Oba, K. Miyata, Polyplex designs for improving the stability and safety of RNA therapeutics. Adv. Drug Deliv. Rev., 199 114972 (2023) (DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2023.114972)
- C. Lau, N. Benne, B. Lou, O. Zharkova, H. Ting, D. Ter Braake, N. van Kronenburg, M. Fens, F. Broere, W. Hennink, J. Wang, E. Mastrobattista, Modulating albumin-mediated transport of peptide-drug conjugates for antigen-specific Treg induction. J Control Release, 2022, 348:938-950 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2022.06.025)
- C. Lau, E. Mastrobattista, Programming supramolecular peptide materials by modulating the intermediate steps in the complex assembly pathway: implications for biomedical applications. Curr Opin Colloid Interface Sci, 2021, 51, 101396 (DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2020.101396)
- C. Lau, F. Fontana, J. van Dikkenburg, L. Mandemaker, D. Wezendonk, A. Bonvin, R. de Vries, H. Zhang, K. Remaut, A. Hassan, B. Perrone, R. Kuemmerle, W. Hennink, M. Weingarth, E. Mastrobattista, Control over the fibrillization yield by varying the oligomeric nucleation propensities of self-assembling peptides. Commun Chem, 2020, 3, 164 (DOI: 10.1038/s42004-020-00417-7)