Dr. Wei Zhang
Lecturer
E-mail：weizhang@rcsi.com
Biography
Wei Zhang is a lecturer in the International College for Pharmaceutical Innovation (ICPI), Soochow University (SUDA), China and the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences (PBS), Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Ireland. Her research focuses on bio-nano interactions and functional design of nanomaterials for therapy. She has 7 peer-reviewed publications and several papers under rebuttal in journals such as Nature Materials and Nature Nanotechnology. She is an invited reviewer for the Journal of Analytical Biochemistry and a member of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). She received several awards and grants, including Ireland outstanding postgraduate project award (2020), and Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022).
Select Publications
1. Ye Y.; Huang G.; Zhang W (co first author).; Wu J.; Wu J.; Li Y.; Zhou X.; Jia J.; Xie Z.; Yan B.; Dawson K.; Chen J.; Wang Y.; Yan., Integrated Methodology from Synthesis to in Vivo Study that Identifies Nanostructure Shape “Hot Spots” in T Cell Receptor Repertoire. Nano Letters 2025, 25, 17, 7003-7011.
2. Zhang W.; Lopez H.; Boselli L.; et al., A nanoscale shape-discovery framework supporting systematic investigations of shape-dependent biological effects and immunomodulation. ACS Nano 2022, 16, 1, 1547–1559.
3. Zhang W.; Li J.; Silveira C.; et al., Nanoscale shape-dependent histone modifications. PNAS Nexus 2022, 1, 4, 172.
4. Cai Q.; Castagnola V.; Boselli L.; Moura A.; Lopez H.; Zhang W.; Araujo J.; Dawson K., A microfluidic approach for synthesis and kinetic profiling of branched gold nanostructure. Nanoscale Horiz., 2022,7, 288-298.
5. Boselli L.; Lopez H.; Zhang, W.; et al., Classification and biological identity of complex nano shapes. Commun. Mater. 2020, 1, 1-12.
6. Zhou A. H.; He Q.; Shu C.; Yu Y. F.; Liu S.; Zhao T.; Zhang W.; Lu X.; Ye L. W., Atom-economic generation of gold carbenes: gold-catalyzed formal [3+2] cycloaddition between ynamides and isoxazoles. Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 1265-1271.
7. Shen C. H.; Li L.; Zhang W.; Liu S.; Shu C.; Xie Y. E.; Yu Y. F.; Ye L. W., Gold-Catalyzed Tandem Cycloisomerization/Functionalization of in Situ Generated α-Oxo Gold Carbenes in Water. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 79, 19, 9313–9318.
