IUPESM Fellow: Yubo Fan

Service

Professor Yubo Fan is founding dean of the School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering of Beihang University. He is also the Director of Beijing Advanced Innovation Centre for Biomedical Engineering, and Director of Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education. He is a Changjiang Scholar and served in many research or training programs and committees, including the leader of Innovation group of National Science Fund of China (NSFC, 2015), He is the Fellow of AIMBE, IAMBE and the FBSE. Dr. Fan is past president of Chinese Biomedical Engineering Society (CSBME, 2008-2012, 2012-2015), past Chair of World Association for Chinese Biomedical Engineers (WACBE, 2017-2019), and the past council member of World Council of Biomechanics (2002-2014). He is vice president of China Strategic Alliance of Medical Devices Innovation. Dr. Fan has made significant contributions in the following areas: (1) Biomechanical analysis, design and manufacture of biodegradable Implants, (2) Mechanobiological study on cells under the physiological pulsatile flow, (3) Biomechanism of human impact injuries and protection. Dr. Fan has published more than 600 articles in scientific journals such as Advance Materials, Advanced Functional Materials,  Biomaterials, ACS Nano, Material & Design etc with H-index 66. He has filed more than 100 patents and is active in translational research.