9月19日下午，美国西北大学化学系SonBinh T. Nguyen教授应邀来到我校亚青村教学楼，给2011学院全体毕业生和2014级相关专业学生做了题为“Smart nanoscale drug delivery platforms from stimuli-responsive polymers and liposomes”的学术报告，先进材料研究院副院长霍峰蔚教授等参加了学术报告会。报告会由2011学院副院长刘沫主持。

讲座伊始，Sonbinh教授介绍了自己的求学经历，并分享了英语语言的学习心得，迅速拉近了和同学之间的距离。他14岁从越南移民至美国，英语学习也是从那时开始。他鼓励大家学好英语，从而能和更多的人沟通、交流自己的想法。接着，Sonbinh教授切入报告会主题，从如何治愈癌症这一问题出发：首先阐述了传统放疗化疗的问题所在——药物的毒性、副作用过大，给患者带来了过重的心理负担和生理负担。紧接着，Sonbinh教授系统地阐述了自己课题组近10年基于脂质体（lipospmes）与聚合物在抗癌药物方面的相关成果——包括寻找合适的缓释方式（drug deliver）以及合适运载物尺寸的过程。此外，Sonbinh教授还向同学们展示了不同尺寸、浓度、化学改性后以及不同药物参杂后的药物对于药物缓释以及治疗肿瘤等病症效果。Sonbinh教授研究的这种有选择性，有针对性的药物相比于常规化疗能够降低危险，减少昂贵的医疗费用，从而为癌症患者提高生活质量。Sonbinh教授之所以在学术上取得如此高的成就，与他的辛勤努力和付出是密不可分的。“Even now I still work about fourteen hours a day and 7 days a week. I can do so because I'm passionate about what I'm doing.”Sonbinh教授这种对于学术的钻研精神是大家学习的榜样，也给所有同学带来了莫大的鼓舞。

在报告会的尾声，Sonbinh教授与同学们进行了互动交流，对同学们提出的问题做了详尽细致的解答，现场气氛十分热烈。Sonbinh教授从学生、教授两个角度出发，鼓励同学们寻找自己的研究兴趣所在，进入到自己真正感兴趣的领域之中。Sonbinh教授通过自身的科研经历阐述了“兴趣”二字在科研工作中的重要性，他告诉同学们“If you're not intersted in the lecutre， just don’t show up”。

最后，报告会在同学们热烈的掌声中结束。此次报告会不仅拓宽了学生的知识面，而且提升了同学们的思维能力，对于目前自身的课题研究也具有很大的帮助和指导意义。

附：Sonbinh T. Nguyen教授简介

SonBinh T. Nguyen received a doctoral degree in Chemistry under the directions of Profs. Robert Grubbs and Nathan Lewis at Caltech, where he was an NSF and an NDSEG predoctoral fellow.  After an NSF postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. K. Barry Sharpless at Scripps, SonBinh began his independent career at Northwestern in 1996, where he is now a Professor of Chemistry.  He is also a Senior Fellow in the technical staff at Argonne National Laboratory.  At Northwestern, he has held the Dow Research Professorship, the highly prestigious McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellence and the Directorship of the Integrated Science Program. 

SonBinh has coauthored over 250 manuscripts, held over 30 patents, and is the recipient of many awards.  His expertise is in the broad areas of catalysis, chemical synthesis, soft material synthesis, and biologically inspired materials chemistry.  In 2014 and 2015, he was named a Highly Cited Researcher by Thompson-Reuters.  He also was recently named one of 300 researchers (ranked by the total citations of their papers) in the field of materials science and engineering (MSE) by MSESupplies.com based on Elsevier Scopus data.