Principal Investigator

 

Dr. Jie Zheng

 

Research Associate Professor

 

Dr. Mengxiao Yu

 

Staffs

 

Dr. Xuhui Ning

 

Dr. Yingyu Huang

 

Ms. Xingxing Zhao

 

Dr. Greg Zhang

 

PhD Candidate

 

Ms. Samira Ahrari

 

Graduate Students

 

Ms. Shafie, Arefeh

 

Mr. Wei Xiao

 

Undergraduate Students

 

Mr. Dylan Sreshta

 

Ms. Qian (Emily) Xu

 

Ms. Lily Nguyen

 

Mr. Danny Habbas

 

Visisting Professor

 

Former Group Members

 

Dr. Jinbin Liu (Postdoc)

Dr. Shengyang Yang (Postdoc)

Dr. Jing Yu (Postdoc)

Dr. Zhanghua Zeng (Postdoc)

Dr. Liang Zhao (Postdoc)

Dr. Juanzhu Yan (Postdoc)

Dr. Shaoheng Tang (Postdoc)

 

Ms. Jennifer Chilek (Graduate)

Dr. Chen Zhou (Graduate)

Dr. Shasha Sun (Graduate)

Dr. Rodrigo Vinluan III (Graduate)

Ms. Jessica Jacobe (Graduate)

Dr. Jing Xu (Graduate)

Dr. Bujie Du (Graduate)

Dr. Xingya Jiang (Graduate)

Dr. Chuanqi Peng (Graduate)

Dr. Qinhan Zhou (Graduate)

Dr. Siqing Li (Graduate)

Mr. Yue Chong (Graduate)

 

Ms. Sheby Alexander (Undergraduate)

Mr. Chris Alameddin (Undergraduate)

Mr. Michael Anyirah (Undergraduate)

Mr. Sishan Chen (Undergraduate) 

Mr. Giovanni Contello (Undergraduate) 

Mr. Andrew Dean (Undergraduate)

Ms. Melissa Gannaway (Undergraduate)

Ms. Julia Hankins (Undergraduate)

Ms. Grace Kong (Undergraduate)

Mr. Stephen McMahon (Undergraduate)

Mr. Husain Mogri (Undergraduate)

Mr. Ali Mozayan (Undergraduate)

Mr. Justin Sullins (Undergraduate)

Mr. Joel Taylor (Undergraduate)

Mr. Jonathan Wang (Undergraduate)

Mr. Greg Zhang (Undergraduate)

Mr. Anthony Dao (Undergraduate)

Ms. Phoebe Carter (Undergraduate)

 

Ms. Chelsea Carson (High School)

Ms. Karen Chen (High School)

Ms. Clare Jensen (High School)

Ms. Rebecca John (High School)

Ms. Amy Xia (High School)

Mr. Robert Yao (High School)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Xuhui Ning

 

Research Scientist & Lab Manager 

 

Office: NSERL 2.440

 

E-mail: xxn101020@utdallas.edu

 

Address:

 

The University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W Campbell Rd. Richardson, TX 75080

 
 

Education Background

 

PhD. Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2013-2019.

 

B.S.  Chemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2009-2013.

Research Area

 

Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles Synthesis and Bioimaging.

 

Honors and Awards

 

Presidential Achievement Award, University of Texas at Dallas, 2013.

 

First Place of Undergraduate Research Poster Competition, University of Texas at Dallas, 2013.

 

Julia Williams Van Ness Merit Scholarship, University of Texas at Dallas, 2013.

 

Undergraduate Research Award, University of Texas at Dallas, 2012.

 

Undergraduate Research Award, University of Texas at Dallas, 2011.

 

Publications

9. C. Q. Peng, J. Xu, M. X. Yu, X. H. Ning, Y. Y. Huang, B. J. Du, E. Hernandez, P. Kapur, J. T. Hsieh, J. Zheng. Tuning in vivo transport of anticancer drugs with renal‐clearable gold nanoparticles. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201903256 (2019).

 

8. Xu, J., Yu, M., Peng, C., Carter, P., Tian, J., Ning, X., Zhou, Q., Tu Qiu., Zhang G., Dao A., Jiang X., Kapur, P., Hsieh, J., Zhao, X., Liu, P., Zheng, J., “Dose Dependencies and Biocompatibility of Renal Clearable Gold Nanoparticles: From Mice to Non-human Primates.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 266 –271.

 

7. Xuhui Ning, Chuanqi Peng, Eric S. Li, Jing Xu, Rodrigo Vinluan, Mengxiao Yu and Jie Zheng. "Physiological stability and renal clearance of ultrasmall zwitterionic gold nanoparticles: Ligand length matters." Apl Materials 2017, 5: 053406.

 

6. J.B. Liu, P.N. Duchesne, M.X. Yu, X.Y. Jiang, X.H. Ning, P. Zhang, J. Zheng. “Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles with Size-independent Emissions”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016. 55, 8894-8898

 

5. S. Sun, X. Ning, G. Zhang, Y.C. Wang, C. Peng, J. Zheng. "Dimerization of Organic Dyes on Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles for Ratiometric pH Sensing", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 2421 –2424.

 

4.M. X. Yu, J. B. Liu, X. H. Ning, J. Zheng*. “High-contrast Noninvasive Imaging of Kidney Clearance Kinetics Enabled by Renal Clearable Nanofluorophores”. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54, 15434-15438 (2015).

3. M. X. Yu, J. C. Zhou, B. J. Du, X. H. Ning, C. Authement, L. Gandee, P. Kapur, J. T. Hsieh, J. Zheng. “Noninvasive Staging of Kidney Dysfunction Enabled by Renal Clearable Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 55, 2787-2791 (2016) (Highlighted as VIP).

2. J. Liu, M. Yu, C. Zhou, S. Yang, X. Ning, and J. Zheng, “Passive Tumor Targeting of Renal Clearable Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles: Long Tumor Retention and Fast Normal Tissue Clearance”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135(13): 4978-4981.

1. J.B. Liu, M.X. Yu, X. Ning, C. Zhou, S.Y. Yang, and J. Zheng, "PEGylation and Zwitterionization: Pros and Cons in Renal Clearance and Tumor Targeting of Near-IR-Emitting Gold Nanoparticles", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, DOI:10.1002/anie.201304465.  (Highlighted as VIP)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Contact us]

2.440 NSERL Building, The University of Texas at Dallas
Tel: 972-883-5768 (Dr. Zheng), 972-883-5769 (Lab)