Dr. Ying Zhang is an associated professor in the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Soochow University. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Wuhan University in 2013 and Ph.D from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019 (Supervisor: Prof. Huayu Tian). She worked as a Postdoc researcher in the University of Wisconsin-Madison between 2019-2022 (Co-advisor: Prof. Shaoqin Gong). She joined the Biomedical Polymers Laboratory at Soochow University in 2023. She has published over 10 SCI papers. Her current research interest is the design of nanoparticles for cancer immunotherapies.

Representative Papers：

     1.Y. Zhang ^#, R.N. Sriramaneni^#, P.A. Clark, J.C. Jagodinsky, M. Ye, W. Jin, Y. Wang, A. Bates, C.P. Kerr, T. Le, R. Allawi, X. Wang, R. Xie, T.C. Havighurst, I. Chakravarty, A.L. Rakhmilevich, K.A. O'Leary, L.A. Schuler, P.M. Sondel, K. Kim, S. Gong*, Z.S. Morris*. Multifunctional nanoparticle potentiates the in situ vaccination effect of radiation therapy and enhances response to immune checkpoint blockade. Nature Communications, 2022, 13, 4948.

    2.Y. Zhang, L. Lin, L. Liu, F. Liu, S, Sheng, H. Tian*, X. Chen. Positive feedback nanoamplifier responded to tumor microenvironments for self-enhanced tumor imaging and therapy. Biomaterials, 2019, 216, 119255.

    3.Y. Zhang, L. Wang, L. Liu, L. Lin, F. Liu, Z. Xie*, H. Tian*, X. Chen. Engineering metal organic frameworks for photoacoustic imaging guided chemo/photothermal combinational tumor therapy. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018, 10, 41035-41045.

    4.Y. Zhang, L. Liu, L. Lin, J. Chen, H. Tian*, X. Chen*, A. Maruyama. In situ dual-crosslinked nanoparticles for tumor targeting gene delivery. Acta Biomaterialia, 2018, 65, 349-362.    

    5.Y. Zhang ^#, L. Lin ^#, L. Liu, F. Liu, A. Maruyama, H. Tian*, X. Chen. Ionic-crosslinked polysaccharide/PEI/DNA nanoparticles for stabilized gene delivery. Carbohydrate Polymers, 2018, 201, 246-256.