Dr. Wei Chen is a professor at the department of Physics, UT Arlington. He has been engaged in cutting-edge nanotechnology research for many years and is an internationally renowned expert in nanomedicine and cancer nanotechnology. He is well known for his inventions in cancer nano-targeted therapy and deep cancer photodynamic therapy. Currently he has published 295 papers in famous academic journals such as PNAS, Nano Letters, Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy(Nature), Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Materials Today Physics, presided over the compilation of 1 monograph (three volumes), and participated in the compilation of 13 monographs. His papers have been cited more than 11500 times, and his H index is 58, including one paper with 685 citations, 13 papers with more than 200 times, 28 papers with more than 100 times. He has 20 US patents granted and he has been funded with more 30 scientific research projects with a total funding of more than 9 million U.S. dollars. His early pioneering work on thermoluminescence of nanoparticles were adopted by Charles P. Poole Jr. and Frank J. Owens in their first Textbook ‘Introduction to Nanotechnology’ published in 2003. Dr. Chen's scientific research work has attracted wide attention and has been reported by the American TV program CBS.Dr. Chen received the University distinguished record of research and creative activity award in 2020. He is one of the 35 scientists from the country to be included in the National Academy of Inventors 2020 class of Senior Members. He was elected be a Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (Sweden) and a Vebleo Fellow in 2020, a Sigma Xi full member and the Pencis award in 2021.He proposed the concept of "nanoparticle self-luminous photodynamic therapy" for the treatment of deep cancer and invented the fourth-generation photosensitizer-copper cysteine. This new type of photosensitizer can generate active oxygen in ultraviolet light, X-rays, microwaves and ultrasound for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases. He pioneered CuS based photothermal therapy and the microwave induced oxidative therapy.

Wei Li is a UTHSC Distinguished Professor, Director of UTCoP Drug Discovery Center, Faculty Director of Shared Analytical Instrument Facility, University of TN College of Pharmacy. Founder, Owner, and CSO of SEAK Therapeutics, LLC

Professor Wong is currently Advisor (Environmental Science), and Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Geochemistry and Health (Springer Nature). Having served as the Regional Coordinator of Central and North-East Asia of the project “Regionally Based Assessment of Persistent Toxic Substances” sponsored by United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and Global Environment Facility (GEF), Prof. Wong has recently taken part in a panel of three to review a UNEP/GEF initiative “Emerging Chemicals Management Issues in Developing Countries and Countries with Economies in Transition” with the aim of understanding the sources and preventing adverse impacts of chemicals on human health and the environment in rapidly developing countries. Professor Wong has published 778 SCI papers and 32 book chapters, edited 25 books/special issues of scientific journals, and has successfully filed 8 patents. In addition to a PhD Degree (Durham), he was awarded a DSc Degree each from University of Durham and University of Strathclyde, based on his publications, in 1992 and 2004, respectively. He was also awarded the Croucher Senior Fellow (Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong) in 1997; the Royal Society Visiting Fellow (Royal Society, UK) in 2000; Chang Jiang Chair Professor of Environmental Science (Ministry of Education, China) in 2014; the Milton Gordon Award for the Best Research in Phytoremediation (the International Phytotechnology Society) in 2016; Fellow of Society of Environmental Geochemistry and Health (UK) in 2018; and Silver Medal of the International Exhibition of Inventions (Geneva) in 2019. Among the “Top 1,173 Most-Cited Scientists” in the Environmental Science field, based on publications spanning 23 years (1996–2018, information provided by Scopus: total citation, H-index, Hm-index, etc.), Prof. Wong is ranked 24th and is also listed as the top Chinese environmental scientist worldwide. According to The World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford University, 2020), he is ranked No. 6 (career long, out of 66,925), under Environmental Sciences in the world.