Chemical and Biological Engineering professor James Feng has been appointed a Distinguished Scholar in Residence by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies for 2014-15. Feng holds a Canada Research Chair in Complex Fluids and Interfaces and a joint appointment with UBC’s Department of Mathematics. His interdisciplinary work seeks to exploit mixtures of complex fluids for novel engineering and biomedical applications, such as improved processes for controlled drug release and investigations into the dynamics of pathological cells—damaged red blood cells found in malaria and cancer. For more information, click here.
