Faculty

Motao Zhu

Title: Professor
E-mail: zhumt(AT)nanoctr.cn
Affiliation: National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST)
No.11 Beiyitiao Zhongguancun,
100190 Beijing,
P. R. China
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Education and Professional Experience:

EDUCATION:
 
2000.09-2004.07 B.S., Pharmaceutical Science, Peking University, Beijing, China
2004.09-2009.07 Ph.D., Bioinorganic Chemistry, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
 
POST-GRADUATE TRAINING:
 
2017.02-2017.11 Postdoctoral Fellow, Immunology, Rong-Fu Wang, Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, Houston Methodist Research Institute
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

2009.09-2013.01 Assistant Professor CAS Key Lab for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology
2013.01-2017.01 Associate Professor CAS Key Lab for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology 
2017.11-2019.10 Research Associate Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, Houston Methodist Research Institute
2019.11-2021.02 Assistant Professor Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

Research Interests:

1.    Guangtong Deng, Chaoran Li, Lang Chen, Changsheng Xing, Chuntang Fu, Chen Qian, Xin Liu, Helen Y. Wang, Motao Zhu*, Rong-Fu Wang*. BECN2 (beclin 2) Negatively Regulates Inflammasome Sensors Through ATG9A-Dependent but ATG16L1- and LC3-Independent Non-Canonical Autophagy. Autophagy 2021. in press 
2.    Motao Zhu, Libo Du, Ruifang Zhao, Helen Y. Wang, Yuliang Zhao, Guangjun Nie*, Rong-Fu Wang*. Cell-Penetrating Nanoparticles Activate the Inflammasome to Enhance Antibody Production by Targeting Microtubule-Associated Protein 1-Light Chain 3 for Degradation. ACS Nano 2020, 14, 3, 3703-3717.
3.    Motao Zhu, Guangtong Deng, Peng Tan, Cuiping Guan, Chongming Jiang, Yinlong Zhang, Bingnan Yin, Changsheng Xing, Bo Ning, Kaifu Chen, Yuliang Zhao, Helen Y. Wang, Beth Levine, Guangjun Nie*, Rong-Fu Wang*. Beclin 2 negatively regulates innate immune signaling and tumor development through non-canonical autophagy. J. Clin. Invest. 2020,130(10):5349-5369.
4. Motao Zhu, Guangtong Deng, Changsheng Xing, Guangjun Nie, Rong-Fu Wang. BECN2 (beclin 2)-mediated non-canonical autophagy in innate immune signaling and tumor development. Autophagy 2020;16(12):2310-2312.
5.    Motao Zhu, Xilai Ding, Ruifang Zhao, Xuewu Liu, Haifa Shen, Chunmei Cai, Mauro Ferrari, Helen Y. Wang, Rongfu Wang*. Co-delivery of tumor antigen and dual toll-like receptor ligands into dendritic cell by silicon microparticle enables efficient immunotherapy against melanoma. J. Control. Release. 2018, 272, 72-82.
6.    Motao Zhu*, Rongfu Wang, Guangjun Nie. Applications of nanomaterials as vaccine adjuvants. Hum. Vaccin. Immunother. 2014, 10(9):2761-74.
7. Motao Zhu, Guangjun Nie, Andre Nel*, Yuliang Zhao*. Physicochemical Properties Determine Nanomaterial Cellular Uptake, Transport, and Fate. Acc. Chem. Res. 2013, 46(3), 622-631.
8.    Motao Zhu, Yiye Li, Jian Shi, Weiyue Feng, Guangjun Nie*, and Yuliang Zhao*. Exosomes as extrapulmonary signaling conveyors for nanoparticle-induced systemic immune activation. Small  2012, 8(3), 404-412 Cover picture.
9.    Motao Zhu, Xin Tian, Xiao Song, Yanhua Tian, Yuliang Zhao, Guangjun Nie*. Nanoparticle-induced exosomes target antigen-presenting cells to initiate Th1-type immune activation. Small 2012, 8(18), 2841-2848.
10.    Xin Tian1, Motao Zhu1, Yanhua Tian, Ramm Grant, Yuliang Zhao*, Guangjun Nie*. A membrane vesicle-based dual vaccine against melanoma and Lewis lung carcinoma. Biomaterials 2012, 33(26), 6147-54 

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