Dr Lizhou Xu

Biography

Lizhou Xu obtained his PhD degree in Biosystems Engineering at College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University (2011-2016). He studied as a joint-training PhD student focusing on rapid detection of bacteria and viruses in Biological Engineering at University of Arkansas (2013-2015). Afterwards, he was awarded the 2016 KC Wong Postdoctoral Fellowship from King’s College London and Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (2017-2019) from European Union, working together with Prof. Khuloud Al-Jamal’s group at Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Life Science and Medicine, King’s College London. His current research interests include the development of exosome-based drug delivery systems for cancer therapy and point-of-care detection of exosomes as biomarkers in health care using biosensing technology.