Zheng's Lab @ UT-Dallas Nanotechnology, Single molecule spectroscopy, Bioimaging News
NewsNovember 2021: Qinhan and Siqing passed their PhD thesis defense! Congratulations and couldn't be more happy for you!
August 2021: Wei Xiao joined our group as a graduate student! Welcome!
June 2021: Samira passed her PhD qualifying examination! Congrats!
September 2020: Xingya and Qinhan's paper "Noninvasive monitoring of hepatic glutathione depletion through fluorescence imaging and blood testing." was published by Science Advances. Great Job! (Highlighted by UT Dallas News: Study Shows Simple Blood Test Could Detect Liver Injury Earlier | News Center (utdallas.edu))
September 2020: Bujie's paper "Hyperfluorescence imaging of kidney cancer enabled by renal secretion pathway dependent efflux transport." was published by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Good Job!
August 2020: Yingyu passed his PhD thesis defense! Congratulations and happy graduation!
June 2020: Chuanqi and Yingyu's review paper "Renal clearable nanocarriers: Overcoming the physiological barriers for precise drug delivery and clearance." was published by Journal of Controlled Release. Good Job!
May 2020: Hasti Shafie joined our group as a graduate student! Welcome!
April 2020: Xingya's paper "Cancer photothermal therapy with ICG-conjugated gold nanoclusters." was published by Bioconjugate Chemistry. Great Job!
April 2020: Shaoheng and Yingyu's paper "Salivary Excretion of Renal-Clearable Silver Nanoparticles." was published by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations!
March 2020: Dr. Zheng was selected to the AIMBE College of Fellows! Congratulations, Dr.Zheng! (News from the AIMBE: Jie Zheng Dr. Jie Zheng Inducted into AIMBE College of Fellows - AIMBE)
March 2020: Dr. Mengxiao Yu received her first NIH R01 grant that focuses on fundamental understanding of the transport and interactions of engineered nanoparticles in the renal proximal tubules. Congratulations! NIH Awards $1.4 Million for Research on Kidney-Safe Nanomedicines – Office of Research and Innovation (utdallas.edu)
December 2019: Chuanqi's paper "In situ ligand-directed growth of gold nanoparticles in biological tissues." was published by Nano Letters. Good Job!
November 2019: Bujie's paper "Tailoring kidney transport of organic dyes with low-molecular-weight PEGylation." was published by Bioconjugate Chemistry. Congratulations!
August 2019: Bujie, Xingya and Chuanqi passed their PhD thesis defense! Congratulations to you all and happy graduation!
July 2019: Xingya's paper "Glutathione-mediated biotransformation in the liver modulates nanoparticle transport" was published by Nature Nanotechnology. Great Job! (Highlighted by UT Dallas News Center: Chemists Close Gap in Making Nanomedicines Safer, More Efficient - News Center | The University of Texas at Dallas (utdallas.edu))
May 2019: Chuanqi's paper "Tuning in vivo transport of anticancer drugs with renal clearable gold nanoparticles." was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations!
May 2019: Congratulations to Bujie for receiving Chinese Government award for outstanding self-financed students aboard. Good job!
April 2019: Bujie’s received IKA Graduate Research Leadership Fellowship Award. Congratulations!
March 2019: Xingya’s paper “Photoacoustic Imaging of Nanoparticle Transport in the Kidneys at High Temporal Resolution” was published by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Good job!
December 2018: Dr. Mengxiao Yu was highlighted by Nanomedicine (Lond) as a female scientist in the field of developing nanomedicines and imaging nanotechnology for kidney disease. Congratulations Dr. Yu! How nanotechnology imaging can be used in kidney disease: an interview with Dr Mengxiao Yu | Nanomedicine (futuremedicine.com)
November 2018: Samira Ahrari joined our group as a graduate student. Welcome!
September 2018:
Mengxiao paper “Renal Clearable
Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles: From the Bench
to the Clinics” was published by Angew.
Chem. Int. Ed.
Congratulations!
September 2018: Xingya’s paper “Ultrasmall noble metal nanoparticles: Breakthroughs and biomedical implications” was pubulished by Nano today. Well done!
June 2018: Bujie’s paper “Transport and Interactions of Nanoparticles in the Kidneys” was accepted by Nature Reviews Materials. Great job!
May 2018: Prof. Dr. Zheng received Cecil H. and Ida Green Professor fellowship in Systems Biology Science. Congratulations!
May 2018: Shaoheng’s paper "Antibacterial Activity of Silver Nanoparticles: Structural Effects " was published by Advanced healthcare materials. Well done!
March 2018: Yingyu’s paper "Luminescence mechanisms of ultrasmall gold nanoparticles " was published by Dalton Transactions. Congratulations!
Feburary 2018: Congratulations to Mr. Qinhan Zhou for passing his qualifying exam. Good job!
November 2017:
Jing Xu and Mengxiao's paper "Dose Dependencies and
Biocompatibility of Renal Clearable Gold
Nanoparticles: From Mice to Non-human
Primates"
was published by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
Congratulations!
September 2017: Jing Xu's paper "In vivo X-ray imaging of transport of renal clearable gold nanoparticle in kidneys" was selected as VIP by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congrats!
September 2017: Congratulations to Bujie Du 's paper "Glomerular barrier behaves as an atomically precise bandpass filter in a sub-nanometre regime" was published by Nature nanotechnology.
September 2017: Ms. Siqing Li joined our group as a graduate student. Welcome!
May 2017: Congratulations to Greg Zhang, Anthony Dao and Phoebe Carter for graduating from the University of Texas at Dallas! Wish all of you a bright future!
April 2017:
Congratulations to Anthony Dao and Phoebe Carter
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February 2017: Congratulations to Mr. Yingyu Huang for passing his qualifying exam. Good job!
January 2017: Dr. Mengxiao Yu's paper "Interaction of renal-clearable gold nanoparticles with tumor microenvironments: vasculature and acidity effects" was published by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congrats!
September 2016: Mr. Qinhan Zhou joined our group as a graduate student. Welcome!
June 2016: We accepted three high school students as summer researchers in our group. Welcome!
June 2016: Dr. Shasha Sun accepted a faculty position at Flathead Valley Community College. Congrats!
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May 2016: Congratulations to Dr. Mengxiao Yu and Dr. Jinbin Liu for publishing a four-year work titled “Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles with Size-independent Emissions” in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
May 2016: Congratulations to Mr. Xuhui Ning for passing his Qualifying Exam. Great job!
May 2016: Dr. Rodrigo Vinluan accepted a faculty position at Bard College as a visiting assistant professor. Congrats!
April 2016: Mengxiao Yu, Bujie Du, Xuhui Ning, and Dr. Jie Zheng's work regarding NIR-fluorescence imaging to study early stage kidney disease was highlighted by UT Dallas News titled "Technique May Improve Understanding, Detection of Kidney Disease", as well as ScienceDaily and Phys. org News. Congrats!
April 2016: Mr. Anthony Dao finished 2nd place at the UTD Undergraduate Research Poster competition! Well done!
April 2016: Congratulations to Mr. Xingya Jiang for his first publication as a PhD candidate titled "Surface-Ligand Effect on Radiosensitization of Ultrasmall Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles". Well done!
April 2016: Dr. Jinbin Liu and Dr. Zheng's book chapter titled "Near Infrared-Emitting Gold Nanoparticles for In Vivo Tumor Imaging" was published in the book "Near Infrared Nanomaterials: Preparation, Bioimaging, and Therapy Applications". Congratulations!
April 2016: Congratulations to Mr. Anthony Dao for making it to the next round of the Undergraduate Research Poster Competition! Great job!
April 2016: Ms. Shasha Sun did a great job defending her thesis. Congrats Dr. Sun!
March 2016: Mr. Rodrigo Vinluan successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Vinluan!
March 2016: Ms. Jessica Jacobe defended her Master's thesis successfully! Congratulations!
March 2016: Congratulations to Ms. Bujie Du and Mr. Chuanqi Peng for passing their Qualifying Exams. Welcome PhD Candidates!
Feb 2016: Dr. Mengxiao Yu's work regarding tracking kidney disease using luminescent gold nanoparticles was highlighted and featured in the Chemical and Engineering News! Congrats!
Feb 2016: Congratulations to Mr. Xingya Jiang for passing his Qualifying Exam! Well done!
Jan 2016: Mengxiao Yu's paper "Noninvasive Staging of Kidney Dysfunction Enabled by Renal-Clearable Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles" was selected as VIP by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congrats!
Dec 2015: Dr. Zheng's group received an office and lab space in K building at UTSW for collaborative research with UTSW faculty members. Congrats!
Dec 2015: Eric Li, a high school summer researcher, was accepted by Yale University. Congrats and keep up the good work Eric!
Dec 2015: Dr. Jie Zheng received an Adjunct Associate Professor position in the Urology Department at UTSW. Congratulations!
Dec 2015: Mengxiao Yu's paper "Noninvasive Staging of Kidney Dysfunction Enabled by Renal-Clearable Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles" was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Well done!
Dec 2015: Shasha Sun and Xuhui Ning's paper "Dimerization of Organic Dyes on Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles for Ratiometric pH Sensing" has been accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Great work!
Nov 2015: Shasha Sun was a co-author in a collaborative paper "Size-Independent Single Electron Tunneling" published in J. Phys. Chem. Let. with Prof. Gang-yu Liu's group from UC Davis. Congratulations!
Oct 2015: Mengxiao Yu's paper "High-contrast noninvasive imaging of kidney clearance kinetics enabled by renal clearable nanofluorophores" was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Great job!
Oct 2015: Mr. Anthony Dao received the Undergraduate Scholar Research award. Congratulations!
Oct 2015: High School students, Eric Li, Eric Sun, and Shoshana Zhang, got into the semifinals of Siemen's competition. Great work!
Sept 2015: Congratulations to Mengxiao Yu! Her review paper "Clearance Pathways and Tumor Targeting of Imaging Nanoparticles" was published in ACS Nano and selected as one of top 5 most read articles in July. Well deserved!
Sept 2015: Rodrigo Vinluan's review paper "Serum protein adsorption and excretion pathways of metal nanoparticles" was published in Nanomedicine. That's awesome!
Aug 2015: Undergraduate students Mr. Anthony Dao and Ms. Phoebe Carter joined our lab. Welcome!
July 2015: Congrats to Rodrigo Vinluan! Our paper "Labeling monomeric insulin with renal clearable luminescent gold nanoparticles" was published in Bioconjugate Chemistry. Good job!
June 2015: Eight high school students joined our group for summer research: Amy Jia, Eric Li, Eric Sun, Sydney Tay, Nikit Venishetty, Amy Wang, Jessica Wang, and Shoshana Zhang. Welcome!
May 2015: Dr. Mengxiao Yu was promoted to research assistant professor for her contribution on cancer and kidney functional imaging. Congratulation!
Mar 2015: Congrats to Rodrigo Vinluan for receiving the ACS Best Poster Award in the Colloid and Surface Chemistry division! (page 6)
Feb 2015: Chen Zhou was a co-author in a collaborative paper "Single Ag Nanoparticle Spectroelectrochemistry via Dark-Field Scattering and Fluorescence Microscopies" that was published in J. Phys. Chem. C. with Prof. Shanlin Pan's group at The University of Alabama.
Feb 2015: Shengyang Yang and Shasha Sun's paper "Renal Clearance and Degradation of Glutathione-Coated Copper Nanoparticles" was accepted by Bioconjugate Chemistry. Congrats!
Jan 2015: Ms. Jing Xu passed her qualifying exam. Congratulations!
Oct 2014: Mr. Greg Zhang received the Undergraduate Scholar Research award. Congratulations!
Sept 2014: Undergraduate student Mr. Joel Taylor joined our group! Welcome!
Sept 2014: Graduate students Ms. Bujie Du, Ms. Jessica Jacobe, Mr. Xingya Jiang, Mr. Xuhui Ning, and Mr. Chuanqi Peng joined our group. Welcome!
Sept. 2014: Dr. Zheng received the first R01 grant from NIH/NIDDK. Congratulations!
Aug 2014: Rodrigo Vinluan received the UTD Chemistry Graduate Fellowship. Good job!
August 2014: Dr. Zheng received the second CPRIT grant. Congratulations!
July 2014: Rodrigo Vinluan's paper "Glutathione-Coated Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles: A Surface Ligand for Minimizing Serum Protein Adsorption" was accepted by ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Well done!
June 2014: Mr. Rodrigo Vinluan is the recipient of this year's Eric Moore Chemistry Graduate Student Scholarship. Congratulations!
May 2014: Undergraduate students, Mr. Justin Sullins and Ms. Melissa Gannaway, joined our group. Welcome!
May 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Mengxiao Yu for her promotion to Research Scientist.
May 2014: Congrats to Mr. Xuhui Ning on his acceptance to the UTD PhD program.
April 2014: Dr. Jie Zheng received his tenure at The University of Texas at Dallas. Congratulations!!
Feb 2014: Shasha Sun's paper "Surface-Chemistry Effect on Cellular Response of Luminescent Plasmonic Silver Nanoparticles" was accepted by Bioconjugate Chemistry. Congratulations!
Sept 2013: Dr. Jinbin Liu's paper entitled "PEGylation and Zwitterionization: Pros and Cons in Renal Clearance and Tumor Targeting of Near-IR-Emitting Gold Nanoparticles" was accepted and highlighted as VIP by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. and Nanomedicine. Well done!
Sept 2013: Dr. Chen Zhou is the recipient of this year's David E. Daniel Graduate Fellowship award. Well deserved!
Sept 2013: Xuhui Ning received the Greater Texas Foundation Scholarship. Congratulations!
Sept 2013: Congratulations to Dr. Jinbin Liu! Our paper "Renal Clearable Inorganic Nanoparticles: A New Frontier of Bionanotechnology" was accepted by Materials Today.
Sept 2013: Sishan Chen received the Selden Leavell Scholarship. Congratulations!
Sept 2013: McDermott Scholar Stephen McMahon joined our group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!
July 2013: Congratulations to Chen! Our paper "Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles: A New Class of Nanoprobes for Biomedical Imaging" was accepted by Exp. Bio. Med.
July 2013: Mr. Xuhui Ning is the recipient of UTD Presidential Achievement Award. Congratulations Louis!
July 2013: Chen successfully passed his Ph.D. Final Oral Exam. Congratulations Dr. Zhou!
June 2013: Mr. Vishruth Reddy and Mr. Charlie Wang joined our group as high school researchers. Welcome!
May 2013: Mr. Rodrigo Vinluan is the recipient of N&SM Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Congratulations Rodrigo!
May 2013: Mr. Giovanni Contello joined our group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!
April 2013: Chen has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the University of Central Missouri. He will be starting his position in August 2013. Congratulations Chen!
April 2013: Jinbin's JACS paper is featured in JACS Spotlights. Congratulations!
April 2013: Mr. Xuhui Ning won the First Place in the Undergraduate Research Poster Competition. Congratulations Louis! (See details)
Mar 2013: Congratulations to Jinbin! Our paper "Passive Tumor Targeting of Renal Clearable Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles: Long Tumor Retention and Fast Normal Tissue Clearance" was published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
Mar 2013: Mr. Chen Zhou is highlighted on the UTD NS&M News! Congratulations!
Mar 2013: Dr. Jinbin Liu won the Best Poster of Bioimaging Award in the 2013 UT Metroplex Day. Congratulations Jinbin!
Feb 2013: Mr. Chen Zhou is the recipient of ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Travel Award. Congratulations Chen!
Feb 2013: Ms. Shasha Sun passed her qualifying exam. Congratulations!
Feb 2013: Mr. Chen Zhou and Mr. Xuhui Ning are the recipients of Julia Williams Van Ness Merit Scholarship. Congratulations!
Feb 2013: Dr. Zheng served as invited panel member for NSF.
Feb 2013: Mr. Andrew Dean joined our group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!
Feb 2013: Mr. Rodrigo Vinluan passed his qualifying exam. Congratulations!
Jan 2013: Mr. Chen Zhou is the recipient of Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad. Congratulations Chen!
Dec 2012: Dr. Zheng served as invited panel member for NSF.
Nov 2012: Mr. Sishan Chen joined our group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!
Oct 2012: Mr. Xuhui Ning, an undergraduate student in our group, is the recipient of UTD Undergraduate Student Research Award. Congratulations Louis!
Sep 2012: Dr. Zheng served as invited panel member for NIH nano study section.
Aug 2012: Our paper "Different Sized Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles" is highlighted as one of the "top 10 most accessed articles" of Nanoscale in June and July 2012.
Aug 2012: Congratulations to Jinbin! Our paper "Decomposition of Amino Acids Catalyzed by Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles" was published in Sci. Adv. Mater.
Aug 2012: Dr. Liang Zhao joined our group as postdoctoral fellow. Liang got his Ph.D from University of California at Riverside. Welcome!
July 2012: Congratulations to Chen! Our paper "Near Infrared Emitting Radioactive Gold Nanoparticles with Molecular Pharmacokinetics" was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
June 2012: Congratulations to Chen! Our paper "Grain Size Effects in Polycrystalline Gold Nanoparticles" was published in Nanoscale.
June 2012: Congratulations to Dr. Zheng! Our review "Different Sized Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles" was published in Nanoscale.
April 2012: Congratulations to Shengyang! Our paper "One-step Interfacial Synthesis and Assembly of Fluorescent Ultrathin Au@Silica Membrane" was published in Adv. Mater.
Dec. 2011: Dr. Zheng received the first CPRIT grant. Congratulations!
Oct 2011: Mr. Chen Zhou is the recipient of UTD Ph.D Research Small Grants Program. Congratulations Chen!
Sept 2011: Our research is highlighted by C&EN News on volume 89, number 36: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/89/8936scic6.html.
July 2011: Ms. Shasha Sun and Mr. Rodrigo Vinluan joined our group as Ph.D student. Shasha received her B.S from Donghua University in 2011, and Rodrigo got his B.S degree from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2011. Welcome!
June 2011: Congratulations to Mengxiao! Our paper "Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles with pH Dependent Membrane Adsorption" was published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
August 2011: Dr. Zheng received the second R21 grant from NIH. Congratulations!
Mar 2011: Dr. Shengyang Yang joined our group as postdoctoral fellow. Shengyang got his Ph.D from Nanjing University of Technology in China. Welcome!
Dec 2010: Congratulations to Chen! Our paper "Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles with Efficient Renal Clearance" was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
Dec 2010: Mr. Louis Ning joined our group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!
Nov 2010: Ms. Grace Kong, an undergraduate student in our group, is the recipient of UTD Undergraduate Student Research Award. Congratulations Grace!
Sept 2010: Dr. Jinbin Liu joined our group as postdoctoral fellow. Jinbin got his Ph.D from University of Science and Technology in China. Welcome!
June 2010: Ms. Chelsea Carson and Ms. Clare Jensen joined our group as high school researchers. Welcome!
May 2010: Mr. Ali Mozayan and Mr. Michael Anyirah joined group as undergraudate researchers. Welcome!
April 2010: Mr. Chen Zhou won the 2nd place Graduate Student Presentation in 43rd American Chemical Society "Meeting in Miniature". Congratulations!
March 2010: Our paper "Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles with Mixed Valence States Generated from Dissociation of Polymeric Au(I) Thiolate" was published in J. Phys. Chem C. Congratulation on Chen's first paper!
March 2010: Dr. Zhanghua Zeng joined group as postdoctal fellow. Zhanghua previously worked in Monash University as postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
March 2010: Dr. Mengxiao Yu and Mr. Chen Zhou won the Best Poster Award in 2010 UT Metroplex Day under "Biomaterials and Tissue" and "Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery" category, respectively. Congratulations!
Feburary 2010: Mr. Chen Zhou passed his qualifying exam. Congratulations!
January 2010: Ms. Jennifer Chilek joined group as Ph.D student. Jennifer got her M.S. degree from UT-Dallas under Dr. Pantano's supervision in 2009. Welcome!
December 2009: Ms. Sheby Alexander, an undergraduate student in our group, is the recipient of UTD Undergraduate Student Research Award. Congratulations Sheby!
August 2009: Dr. Mengxiao Yu joined group as postdoctoral fellow. Mengxiao got her Ph.D from Fudan University in 2009. Welcome!
August 2009: Dr. Zheng received the first R21 grant from NIH. Congratulations!
July 2009: Dr. Zheng received NIH R21 Research Grant. Congratulations!
December 2008: Mr. Chris Alamaddin, an undergraduate student in our group, is the recipient of UTD Undergraduate Student Research Award. Congratulations Chris!
September 2008: Mr. Chen Zhou joined group as Ph.D student. Chen got his B.S degree from Capital Medical University in 2007. Welcome!
August 2008: Dr. Jing Yu joined group as postdoctoral fellow. Jing got her Ph.D from Dalian University of Technology in China. Welcome!
August 2008: Dr. Jie Zheng joined UTD as assistant professor and opened his lab in NSERL building.
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