Ke Cheng - Biography#

Dr. Cheng is the Alan L. Kaganov Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University. He has a joint appointment in Medicine (Cardiology) and is a member of the Columbia University Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center. He currently also serves as the founding chair of Bioengineering Science Committee of American Heart Association (AHA) and chair of board of directors of American Association of Extracellular Vesicles (AAEV). He served as the Chair of the NIH Biomaterials and Biointerfaces (BMBI) study section (2022-2024). He also co-directed the NIH Comparative Molecular Medicine T32 Training Program and served as the Executive Director of Interdisciplinary Scholarship in NC State’s Office of the Provost. Dr. Cheng received his B.S. degree in Pharmaceutical Engineering from Zhejiang University (2004) and Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering from University of Georgia (2008). He has been consistently name as a“highly cited researchers” by Clarivate. Research from Dr. Cheng’s lab has been summarized in publications in Science, Lancet, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Science Translational Medicine, Circulation Research, European Heart Journal, and more. Dr. Cheng is an elected international member of the French National Academy of Medicine (ANM), an elected international member of Academia Europaea, an elected fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), International Association of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE), the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the AAEV, and the AHA. Additionally, he currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Extracellular Vesicle (Elsevier) and Associate Editor for Bioactive Materials. Dr. Cheng has been devoted to the clinical application of stem cells and exosomes. He led several Investigational New Drug (IND) applications obtained from the FDA. Dr. Cheng has been recognized by numerous awards, including the prestigious Wallace H. Coulter Award for Healthcare Innovation, Clemson Award for Applied Research, AIMBE Professional Impact Award for Mentoring, AAEV Founder’s Award etc.