List of works by Gang Zheng

"Zipper" molecular beacons: a generalized strategy to optimize the performance of activatable protease probes

scientific article published on 14 September 2009

A Nanoemulsion with A Porphyrin Shell for Cancer Theranostics

scientific article published on 05 September 2019

A PEGylation-Free Biomimetic Porphyrin Nanoplatform for Personalized Cancer Theranostics

scientific article

A Simple and Short Synthesis of Divinyl Chlorophyll Derivatives

scientific article published on 01 May 1999

A tumor mRNA-triggered photodynamic molecular beacon based on oligonucleotide hairpin control of singlet oxygen production

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Ablation of hypoxic tumors with dose-equivalent photothermal, but not photodynamic, therapy using a nanostructured porphyrin assembly

scientific article published on 12 February 2013

Activatable fluorescence: From small molecule to nanoparticle

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Activatable photosensitizers for imaging and therapy.

scientific article published on May 2010

Activating Drugs with Sound: Mechanisms Behind Sonodynamic Therapy and the Role of Nanomedicine

scientific article published on 16 March 2020

Activation Kinetics of Zipper Molecular Beacons

Advanced Photosensitizer Activation Strategies for Smarter Photodynamic Therapy Beacons

scientific article published on 28 December 2018

Advancing porphyrin's biomedical utility via supramolecular chemistry

scientific article published on 19 October 2017

Aggregate enhanced trimodal porphyrin shell microbubbles for ultrasound, photoacoustic, and fluorescence imaging.

scientific article

An Integrated Nanotechnology-Enabled Transbronchial Image-Guided Intervention Strategy for Peripheral Lung Cancer

scientific article published on 19 August 2016

An MRI-sensitive, non-photobleachable porphysome photothermal agent.

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Assessing the barriers to image-guided drug delivery

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Attenuation of nontargeted cell-kill using a high-density lipoprotein-mimicking peptide--phospholipid nanoscaffold.

scientific article published on 4 May 2011

Biologically-targeted detection of primary and micro-metastatic ovarian cancer

scientific article published on 25 May 2013

Biomimetic ApoE-Reconstituted High Density Lipoprotein Nanocarrier for Blood-Brain Barrier Penetration and Amyloid Beta-Targeting Drug Delivery

scientific article published on 04 October 2016

Biomimetic nanocarrier for direct cytosolic drug delivery.

scientific article published on January 2009

Bioorthogonal Chemistry and Bioconjugation: Synergistic Tools for Biology and Biomedicine

scientific article published in 2021

Can photoacoustic imaging quantify surface-localized J-aggregating nanoparticles?

scholarly article by Liang Lim et al published 13 July 2017 in Journal of Biomedical Optics

Cancer nanomedicine: addressing the dark side of the enhanced permeability and retention effect.

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Carbocyanine labeled LDL for optical imaging of tumors

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Characterizing the metabolic heterogeneity in human breast cancer xenografts by 3D high resolution fluorescence imaging.

scientific article published on 28 February 2013

Chlorosome-Inspired Synthesis of Templated Metallochlorin-Lipid Nanoassemblies for Biomedical Applications

scientific article published on 25 March 2016

Conformational modulation of in vitro activity of cyclic RGD peptides via aziridine aldehyde-driven macrocyclization chemistry.

scientific article

Controlling Spatial Heat and Light Distribution by Using Photothermal Enhancing Auto-Regulated Liposomes (PEARLs)

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Correction to "Photophysics of J-Aggregating Porphyrin-Lipid Photosensitizers in Liposomes: Impact of Lipid Saturation"

scientific article published on 16 August 2020

Correction to Inherently Multimodal Nanoparticle-Driven Tracking and Real-Time Delineation of Orthotopic Prostate Tumors and Micrometastases.

scientific article published on 18 April 2013

Cytosolic delivery of LDL nanoparticle cargo using photochemical internalization.

scientific article published on 23 February 2011

Design and synthesis of phospholipase C and A2-activatable near-infrared fluorescent smart probes.

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Determination of subsurface tumor localization in animal models with near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging

Downsizing nanoparticles for better tumor penetration and accumulation

Dual in vivo photoacoustic and fluorescence imaging of HER2 expression in breast tumors for diagnosis, margin assessment, and surgical guidance.

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Editorial

Editorial

scientific article published on 15 January 2015

Effect of removing Kupffer cells on nanoparticle tumor delivery.

scientific article published on 5 December 2017

Efficient cytosolic delivery of siRNA using HDL-mimicking nanoparticles.

scientific article published on 27 January 2011

Engineering multifunctional nanoparticles: all-in-one versus one-for-all.

scientific article published on 28 February 2013

Enzymatic regioselection for the synthesis and biodegradation of porphysome nanovesicles

scientific article published on 20 January 2012

Evaluation of bacteriochlorophyll-reconstituted low-density lipoprotein nanoparticles for photodynamic therapy efficacy in vivo

scientific article

FRET quenching of photosensitizer singlet oxygen generation

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Facile Synthesis of Advanced Photodynamic Molecular Beacon Architectures

scientific article published on 01 June 2010

Facile synthesis of Raman active phospholipid gold nanoparticles

scientific article published on 19 November 2010

Facilitated brain delivery of poly (ethylene glycol)–poly (lactic acid) nanoparticles by microbubble-enhanced unfocused ultrasound

scientific article published on 18 January 2014

Feature issue introduction: biophotonic materials and applications

scientific article

Flexible or fixed: a comparative review of linear and cyclic cancer-targeting peptides.

scientific article published on August 2012

GM1-Modified Lipoprotein-like Nanoparticle: Multifunctional Nanoplatform for the Combination Therapy of Alzheimer's Disease.

scientific article published on 6 October 2015

HDL-mimicking peptide-lipid nanoparticles with improved tumor targeting

scientific article

High payload delivery of optical imaging and photodynamic therapy agents to tumors using phthalocyanine-reconstituted low-density lipoprotein nanoparticles.

scientific article published on July 2005

High-resolution simultaneous mapping of mitochondrial redox state and glucose uptake in human breast tumor xenografts.

scientific article published in January 2012

Highlights from the latest articles in nanoscale drug delivery and nanodiagnostics

scientific article published on 01 March 2015

Imaging of specific activation of photodynamic molecular beacons in breast cancer vertebral metastases

scientific article published on 24 May 2011

Imaging of tumor hypermetabolism with near-infrared fluorescence contrast agents

Imaging the cytosolic drug delivery mechanism of HDL-like nanoparticles.

scientific article

In situ conversion of porphyrin microbubbles to nanoparticles for multimodality imaging.

scientific article

In vitro assessment of poly-iodinated triglyceride reconstituted low-density lipoprotein: initial steps toward CT molecular imaging

scientific article published on 17 August 2010

Inherently multimodal nanoparticle-driven tracking and real-time delineation of orthotopic prostate tumors and micrometastases

scientific article published on 5 April 2013

Intrinsically copper-64-labeled organic nanoparticles as radiotracers

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Investigating the impact of nanoparticle size on active and passive tumor targeting efficiency.

scientific article published on 22 May 2014

Investigating the specific uptake of EGF-conjugated nanoparticles in lung cancer cells using fluorescence imaging.

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Killer beacons for combined cancer imaging and therapy.

scientific article published on January 2007

Learning from biology: synthetic lipoproteins for drug delivery

scientific article

Ligand conjugated low-density lipoprotein nanoparticles for enhanced optical cancer imaging in vivo.

scientific article published on 12 April 2007

Light-Activated siRNA Endosomal Release (LASER) by Porphyrin Lipid Nanoparticles

scientific article published on 28 February 2023

Lipid-based nanoparticles in the systemic delivery of siRNA.

scientific article published on January 2014

Lipoprotein nanoplatform for targeted delivery of diagnostic and therapeutic agents

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Lipoprotein-based nanoparticles rescue the memory loss of mice with Alzheimer's disease by accelerating the clearance of amyloid-beta

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Lipoprotein-inspired nanoparticles for cancer theranostics

scientific article published on 10 May 2011

Long-Circulating Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen-Targeted NIR Phototheranostic Agent

scientific article published on 19 November 2019

Low-density lipoprotein nanoparticles as magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents

scientific article

Low-density lipoprotein reconstituted by pyropheophorbide cholesteryl oleate as target-specific photosensitizer

scientific article

Lung cancer targeted Raman active phospholipid gold nanoparticles for ultrasensitive and specific molecular imaging and detection

Matrix metalloproteinase-based photodynamic molecular beacons for targeted destruction of bone metastases in vivo

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

Mechanistic insights into LDL nanoparticle-mediated siRNA delivery

scientific article

Metabolism-enhanced tumor localization by fluorescence imaging: in vivo animal studies

scientific article published in November 2003

Methylene blue microbubbles as a model dual-modality contrast agent for ultrasound and activatable photoacoustic imaging

scientific article published in January 2014

Mimicking nature's nanocarrier: synthetic low-density lipoprotein-like nanoparticles for cancer-drug delivery.

scientific article published on June 2007

Mixed and Matched Metallo-Nanotexaphyrin for Customizable Biomedical Imaging

scientific article published on 13 September 2018

Modulation of reactive oxygen species photogeneration of bacteriopheophorbide a derivatives by exocyclic E-ring opening and charge modifications.

scientific article published on 20 December 2013

Molecular Imaging

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Molecular Interactions in Organic Nanoparticles for Phototheranostic Applications

scientific article (publication date: 14 October 2015)

Molecular imaging in drug development: Update and challenges for radiolabeled antibodies and nanotechnology.

scientific article published on 22 July 2017

Multimodal Image-Guided Surgical and Photodynamic Interventions in Head and Neck Cancer: From Primary Tumor to Metastatic Drainage

scientific article published on 13 October 2015

Multimodal Nanoparticle for Primary Tumor Delineation and Lymphatic Metastasis Mapping in a Head-and-Neck Cancer Rabbit Model.

scientific article published on 18 August 2015

Multimodal bacteriochlorophyll theranostic agent.

scientific article

Multimodal micro, nano, and size conversion ultrasound agents for imaging and therapy.

scientific article published on 23 March 2016

Multipronged Biomimetic Approach To Create Optically Tunable Nanoparticles

scientific article published on 06 June 2018

Nano versus Molecular: Optical Imaging Approaches to Detect and Monitor Tumor Hypoxia

scientific article published on 25 November 2020

Nano-enabled SERS reporting photosensitizers

scientific article published on 6 February 2015

Nanomedicine development guided by FRET imaging

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Nanomedicines Lost in Translation

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Nanoparticle targeted folate receptor 1-enhanced photodynamic therapy for lung cancer.

scientific article published on 5 September 2017

Nanoparticle-Enabled Selective Destruction of Prostate Tumor Using MRI-Guided Focal Photothermal Therapy

scientific article

Nanoparticle-enabled, image-guided treatment planning of target specific RNAi therapeutics in an orthotopic prostate cancer model.

scientific article published on 6 April 2014

Nanostructure‐Driven Indocyanine Green Dimerization Generates Ultra‐Stable Phototheranostics Nanoparticles

scientific article published on 31 May 2023

Nanotexaphyrin: One-Pot Synthesis of a Manganese Texaphyrin-Phospholipid Nanoparticle for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

scientific article published on 13 April 2016

Naphthalocyanine-reconstituted LDL nanoparticles for in vivo cancer imaging and treatment.

scientific article published on January 2007

Near-infrared fluorescent imaging of metastatic ovarian cancer using folate receptor-targeted high-density lipoprotein nanocarriers.

scientific article published on 15 October 2012

Near-infrared optical imaging of B16 melanoma cells via low-density lipoprotein-mediated uptake and delivery of high emission dipole strength tris[(porphinato)zinc(II)] fluorophores.

scientific article

New linker design for biomarker-triggered photodynamic molecular beacons

Non-invasive Macrophage Tracking Using Novel Porphysome Nanoparticles in the Post-myocardial Infarction Murine Heart.

scientific article published on 04 January 2016

One minute, sub-one-watt photothermal tumor ablation using porphysomes, intrinsic multifunctional nanovesicles

scientific article

Optical glucose analogs of aminolevulinic acid for fluorescence-guided tumor resection and photodynamic therapy

scientific article published on August 2014

Optical molecular imaging: from single cell to patient.

scientific article

Optically controlled pore formation in self-sealing giant porphyrin vesicles

scientific article

Organized Aggregation of Porphyrins in Lipid Bilayers for Third Harmonic Generation Microscopy.

scientific article published on 29 September 2015

Orthotopic lung cancer murine model by nonoperative transbronchial approach

scientific article published on May 2014

Overcoming obstacles in the tumor microenvironment: Recent advancements in nanoparticle delivery for cancer theranostics

scientific article published on 20 October 2017

Peptide-based molecular beacons for cancer imaging and therapy.

scientific article published on 19 February 2010

Peptide-based pharmacomodulation of a cancer-targeted optical imaging and photodynamic therapy agent.

scientific article published on 14 February 2007

Personalized siRNA-Nanoparticle Systemic Therapy using Metastatic Lymph Node Specimens Obtained with EBUS-TBNA in Lung Cancer.

scientific article published on 9 October 2017

Photodynamic molecular beacon as an activatable photosensitizer based on protease-controlled singlet oxygen quenching and activation

scholarly article

Photodynamic molecular beacon triggered by fibroblast activation protein on cancer-associated fibroblasts for diagnosis and treatment of epithelial cancers

scientific article published on January 2009

Photodynamic therapy agent with a built-in apoptosis sensor for evaluating its own therapeutic outcome in situ

scientific article published on June 2006

Photosensitizers related to purpurin-18- N -alkylimides: a comparative in vivo tumoricidal ability of ester versus amide functionalities

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Phototheranostic Porphyrin Nanoparticles Enable Visualization and Targeted Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer in Clinically Relevant Models.

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Porphyrin FRET Acceptors for Apoptosis Induction and Monitoring

scientific article published on 28 October 2011

Porphyrin Nanodroplets: Sub-micrometer Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Contrast Imaging Agents

scientific article published on 3 December 2015

Porphyrin lipid nanoparticles for enhanced photothermal therapy in a patient-derived orthotopic pancreas xenograft cancer model

Porphyrin shell microbubbles with intrinsic ultrasound and photoacoustic properties

scientific article published in August 2012

Porphyrin-Cross-Linked Hydrogel for Fluorescence-Guided Monitoring and Surgical Resection

scientific article published on 26 July 2011

Porphyrin-lipid stabilized paclitaxel nanoemulsion for combined photodynamic therapy and chemotherapy

scientific article published on 25 May 2021

Porphyrin–Lipid Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles for Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Based Imaging

scientific article published on 16 August 2012

Porphysome nanoparticles for enhanced photothermal therapy in a patient-derived orthotopic pancreas xenograft cancer model: a pilot study

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Programmed Nanoparticle Aggregation Using Molecular Beacons

scientific article published on 01 October 2010

Protease-triggered photosensitizing beacon based on singlet oxygen quenching and activation

scientific article published in September 2004

Pyropheophorbide 2-deoxyglucosamide: a new photosensitizer targeting glucose transporters

scientific article

QUANTIFYING NANOPARTICLE TRANSPORT IN VIVO USING HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING WITH A DORSAL SKINFOLD WINDOW CHAMBER.

scientific article published on October 2012

Quantitative structure-property relationship studies on electrochemical degradation of substituted phenols using a support vector machine.

scientific article published in October 2006

Rational Design of Photosynthesis-Inspired Nanomedicines

scientific article published on 25 April 2019

Rational design of a receptor-targeted photodynamic molecular beacon for the multilevel control of singlet oxygen production and PDT activity in cancer cells

Redox ratio of mitochondria as an indicator for the response of photodynamic therapy.

scientific article published on July 2004

Research Highlights: highlights from the latest articles in nanomedicine

scientific article published on 01 April 2014

Rethinking translational nanomedicine: insights from the 'bottom-up' design of the Porphysome for guiding the clinical development of imageable nanomaterials.

scientific article published on 25 June 2016

Self-assembled porphyrin nanodiscs with structure-dependent activation for phototherapy and photodiagnostic applications.

scientific article published on 12 March 2013

Self-sensing porphysomes for fluorescence-guided photothermal therapy.

scientific article

Specific and Direct Amplified Detection of MicroRNA with MicroRNA:Argonaute-2 Cleavage (miRACle) Beacons

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Stable J-Aggregation of an aza-BODIPY-Lipid in a Liposome for Optical Cancer Imaging

scientific article published on 13 August 2019

Stable J-aggregation enabled dual photoacoustic and fluorescence nanoparticles for intraoperative cancer imaging

scientific article published on 5 January 2016

Stimuli-responsive photoacoustic nanoswitch for in vivo sensing applications

scientific article published in August 2014

Subtherapeutic Photodynamic Treatment Facilitates Tumor Nanomedicine Delivery and Overcomes Desmoplasia

scientific article published on 10 December 2020

Syntheses and Spectroscopic Studies of Some Novel Porphyrin-Pyropheophorbide Dimers and Trimers with Fixed Distances

Syntheses and unusual spectroscopic properties of novel ketobacteriopurpurins

Syntheses of emeraldin and purpurin-18 analogs as target-specific photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy

Syntheses of stable bacteriochlorophyll-a derivatives as potential photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy

Synthesis and evaluation of a stable bacteriochlorophyll-analog and its incorporation into high-density lipoprotein nanoparticles for tumor imaging.

scientific article published on November 2009

Synthesis of beta-galactose-conjugated chlorins derived by enyne metathesis as galectin-specific photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy.

scientific article published in December 2001

Synthesis, comparative photosensitizing efficacy, human serum albumin (site II) binding ability, and intracellular localization characteristics of novel benzobacteriochlorins derived from vic-dihydroxybacteriochlorins.

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Synthesis, photophysical properties, in vivo photosensitizing efficacy, and human serum albumin binding properties of some novel bacteriochlorins.

scientific article published in August 1997

Tailored theranostic apolipoprotein E3 porphyrin-lipid nanoparticles target glioblastoma.

scientific article published on 23 May 2017

Tailoring nanoparticle designs to target cancer based on tumor pathophysiology.

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

Targeting SR-BI for Cancer Diagnostics, Imaging and Therapy

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Targeting-triggered porphysome nanostructure disruption for activatable photodynamic therapy.

scientific article published on 27 January 2014

Texaphyrin: From molecule to nanoparticle

The dose threshold for nanoparticle tumour delivery

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

Theranostic lipid nanoparticles for cancer medicine.

scientific article published on January 2015

Topical MMP beacon enabled fluorescence-guided resection of oral carcinoma

scientific article published on 29 February 2016

Transforming a Targeted Porphyrin Theranostic Agent into a PET Imaging Probe for Cancer.

scientific article

Tricarbocyanine cholesteryl laurates labeled LDL: new near infrared fluorescent probes (NIRFs) for monitoring tumors and gene therapy of familial hypercholesterolemia

scientific article published in June 2002

Tuning Pharmacokinetics to Improve Tumor Accumulation of a PSMA-Targeted Phototheranostic Agent

scientific article published on 29 October 2018

Using Fluorescence Imaging to Track Drug Delivery and Guide Treatment Planning In Vivo

scientific article published in January 2016

Using molecular beacons for cancer imaging and treatment

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Using the singlet oxygen scavenging property of carotenoid in photodynamic molecular beacons to minimize photodamage to non-targeted cells

scientific article published on 20 August 2007

Wittig Reactions on Photoprotoporphyrin IX: New Synthetic Models for the Special Pair of the Photosynthetic Reaction Center†

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

purpurinimides as photosensitizers: effect of the presence and position of the substituents in the in vivo photodynamic efficacy

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