Awards and Honor Representatives:
2007 The Asian Core Program (ACP), Lectureship Award, South Korea
2011 Lectureship Award for Chemistry Research Promotion Center National Science Council. Taiwan.
2013 Collaborative Research Award, College of Sciences, NTU
2015 COS idea competition Award, College of Science, NTU
2016 The Reaxys phD prize, as supervisor
2018 Young Innovator Award in Nano-biotechnology, featured by Nano Research
Dr. Xing's research interests are highly interdisciplinary at the interfaces of Biomedical Fluorescent Imaging, Chemical Biology as well as Nano-medicine and Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Specific aims of ours are to integrate the knowledge of synthesis chemistry, chemical biology and optical imaging sensing techniques to develop the "smart" probes and contrast agents for real-time sensing of diseases active molecules or precisely monitoring of biomedical pathway in living systems. We are also interested in development of unique functional nanomaterials for drug/gene delivery, biocatalysis and multi-modality imaging of biomarkers, unique biomolecules and reactive radical species (e.g. ROS, RNS etc) for potential clinical diagnosis.
1. Biomedical Fluorescent Imaging / Chemical Biology:
a) Development of new fluorescent probes and specific labeling strategies for point-of-care imaging of drug resistant bacterial pathogens.
b) Unique strategies for real-time monitoring of bioactive molecules in tumor cells.
c) Site-specific localization of unique probe contrast agents for precise regulation of cell functions.
2. Nano-theranostics:
a) Unique and smart NIR light mediated functional platforms for localized tumor theranostics.
b) Multi-modality sensing and imaging of biomarkers, unique biofunctional molecules as well as reactive radical species under living settings.
c) NIR light mediated optogentics for precise regulation of disease cell functions.
3. Biomaterials:
Design, synthesis and characterization of new transporters and/or the peptides based hydrogels for biomedical applications.
