Yang YANG obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008 and joined the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology in the same year. From 2012 to 2013, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Chemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Upon returning to China, he continued his work at the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, successively holding the positions of Associate Professor, Project Professor, and Full Professor.

Research Interests

Biomolecular Self-Assembly and Its Biomedical Applications, with particular emphasis on:

1. Clinically oriented nanodrug carriers and formulations

2. Design of photodynamic/photothermal therapy-integrated nanocarriers

3. Applied nanotechnology for therapeutic delivery systems

Selected Publications (full list via UCAS profile)

1. Yang Yang, Huiling Liu, Mingjuan Han,* Bingbing Sun, Junbai Li.* Multilayer Microcapsules for FRET Analysis and Two-Photon-Activated Photodynamic Therapy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2016, 55(43): 13538-13543. (Cover highlight)

2.Yang Yang,# Lei Wang,# Hongqian Cao, Qi Li, Ying Li, Mingjuan Han, Hao Wang,* Junbai Li.* Photodynamic Therapy with Liposomes Encapsulating Photosensitizers with Aggregation-Induced Emission. Nano Letters, 2019, 19(3): 1821-1826.

3.Hongqian Cao, Lei Wang, Yang Yang,* Juan Li, Yanfei Qi, Yue Li, Ying Li, Hao Wang, Junbai Li.* An Assembled Nanocomplex for Improving both Therapeutic Efficiency and Treatment Depth in Photodynamic Therapy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2018, 57(26): 7759-7763.

4.Yue Li, Jinbo Fei, Guangle Li, Haiming Xie,* Jieling Li, Yang Yang,* Youqian Xu, Bingbing Sun, Jiarui Xia, Xueqi Fu, Junbai Li.* Supramolecular Assembly of Photosystem II and Adenosine Triphosphate Synthase in Artificially Designed Honeycomb Multilayers for Photophosphorylation. ACS nano, 2018, 12(2): 1455-1461.

5. Huiling Liu, Yang Yang,* Anhe Wang, Mingjuan Han, Wei Cui, Junbai Li.* Hyperbranched Polyglycerol-Doped Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for One- and Two-Photon Activated Photodynamic Therapy. Advanced Functional Materials, 2016, 26(15): 2561-2570.