Wilson Poon is an assistant professor in the Department of Metallurgical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering at UTEP. Dr. Poon received his PhD from University of Toronto in the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, investigating the organ- and cellular-level barriers to nanoparticle delivery in vivo. Following that, he was awarded an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship for post-doctoral training in RNA biology and gene editing at the University of California San Francisco in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. He has published peer-reviewed academic papers in journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), and ACS Nano. He is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). His research expertise is in understanding how materials science and biology inform nanoparticle-based drug carrier design and delivery systems engineering.