Yu Fan

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Email: fanyu@tongji.edu.cn

Office: 443 Decai Building, 4800 Caoan Road, Tongji University, 201804, Shanghai.

Phone number: 15216796720

Research interests：

1. Organic-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials

2. Bioresponsive polymers

3. Nucleic acid materials

Education background & work experience：

2021/6-Now       Tongji University, School of Materials Science and Engineering,  Postdoctoral Research Associate

2017/3-2021/3     Donghua University, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Ph.D 

  

Selected publications (# represents theco-first author):

1. Yu Fan^#, Wenjie Sun^#, Xiangyang Shi*, Design and biomedical applications of poly(amidoamine)-dendrimer-based hybrid nanoarchitectures. Small Methods 2017, 1 (12), 1700224.

2. Lizhou Lin^#, Yu Fan^#, Feng Gao, Lifang Jin, Dan Li, Wenjie Sun, Fan Li, Peng Qin, Qiusheng Shi*, Xiangyang Shi*, Lianfang Du*. UTMD-promoted co-delivery of gemcitabine and miR-21 inhibitor by dendrimer-entrapped gold nanoparticles for pancreatic cancer therapy. Theranostics 2018, 8 (7), 1923-1939.

3. Yu Fan, Jiulong Zhang, Menghan Shi, Dan Li, Chunhua Lu, Xueyan Cao, Chen Peng*, Serge Mignani*, Jean-Pierre Majoral*, Xiangyang Shi*, Poly(amidoamine) dendrimer-coordinated copper(II) complexes as a theranostic nanoplatform for the radiotherapy-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging and chemotherapy of tumors and tumor metastasis. Nano Letters 2019, 19 (2), 1216-1226.

4. Aijun Li^#, Yu Fan^#, Xueyan Cao^#, Liang Chen, Le Wang, Carla S. Alves, Serge Mignani, Jean-Pierre Majoral*, Helena Tomás*, Xiangyang Shi*, Morpholino-functionalized phosphorus dendrimers for precision regenerative medicine: osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells. Nanoscale 2019, 11(37) 17230-17234.

5. Yu Fan^#, Wenzhi Tu^#, Mingwu Shen, Xuming Chen, Yuesheng Ning, Junjun Li, Tingfeng Chen, Han Wang, Fangfang Yin, Yong Liu*, Xiangyang Shi*, Targeted tumor hypoxia dual-mode CT/MR imaging and enhanced radiation therapy using dendrimer-based nanosensitizers. Advanced Functional Materials 2020, 30 (13), 1909285.

6. Yu Fan, Lizhou Lin, Fangfang Yin, Yu Zhu, Mingwu Shen, Han Wang, Lianfang Du, Serge Mignani, Jean-Pierre Majoral*, Xiangyang Shi*, Phosphorus dendrimer-based copper(II) complexes enable ultrasound-enhanced tumor theranostics. Nano Today 2020, 33, 100899.

7. Dan Li^#, Lizhou Lin^#, Yu Fan^#, Long Liu, Mingwu Shen, Rong Wu, Lianfang Du*, Xiangyang Shi*, Ultrasound-enhanced fluorescence imaging and chemotherapy of multidrug-resistant tumors using multifunctional dendrimer/carbon dot nanohybrids. Bioactive Materials 2021, 6, 729-739

8. Fangang Yin^#, Yu Fan^#, Leijing Xu, Fei Yin, Meijuan He, Tingting Xiao, Xiangyang Shi, Han Wang*, Macrophages loaded with dendrimer-entrapped gold nanoparticles as a theranostic platform for CT imaging-guided combinational therapy of orthotopic osteosarcoma. Chemical Engineering Journal 2021, 417, 129273.

9. Yunchao Xiao^#, Yu Fan^#, Wenzhi Tu, Yuesheng Ning, Meifang Zhu, Yong Liu*, Xiangyang Shi*, Multifunctional PLGA microfibrous rings enable MR imaging-guided tumor chemotherapy and metastasis inhibition through prevention of circulating tumor cell shedding. Nano Today 2021, 38, 101123.