Yang Li, PhD

Full professor, Doctoral supervisor
Personal website：https://www.lilaboratory.org/

Yang Li, PhD, Deputy director of LIV. Talented researcher awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowship, he graduated from Salzburg University in Austria with a PhD degree. He has successively engaged in research on nano immunology and cancer immunology in the European National Academy of Sciences, the Kansas Nanotechnology Research and Development Center and the University of Colorado in the United States. He is now the deputy director of Laboratory of Inflammation and Vaccines (LIV) of the Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, SIAT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, presided over two NSFC programs, international cooperation programs of the Academy of Sciences, participated in the R01 research program of the United States, etc., and published more than 30 papers in international well-known journals including Nature Nanotechnology, Biomaterials, Nature Communications, Nanochemistry; He was awarded the first prize of natural science in Hebei Province. Member of Italian Society of Immunology and Clinical Immunology, The Biophysical Society of China (BSC) and The Chinese Society of Toxicology (CST), guest editor of Frontiers in Immunology, reviewer of Advanced Science, ACS Nano, Small and other specialized scientific journals.

Experience

  • 2018-Now   Professor/LIV deputy director in SIAT, CAS in Shenzhen, CHINA

  • 2016-2018  Post-Doctoral fellow in University of Colorado, USA

  • 2015-2016  Post-Doctoral fellow in Nanotechnology Innovation Center of Kansas State, USA

Education Experience

  • 2011-2014   PhD, Nanoscience and technology, University of Salzburg, Austria 

  • 2011-2014   PhD, Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions, Immunology,  the National Research Council (CNR), Italy

  • 2008-2011   Master, Physiology, Hebei Normal University

  • 2009-2011   Master, Nanotoxicology, the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China

Representative Award

  • The First Prize of Hebei Province Natural Science Foundation (2019)

  • Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad (2013)

  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (2011)

Research Area

  • Tumor immunotherapy

  • Nano-biology

  • Nano-medicine

  • Giant phagocytosis and fine migration

  • Tumor inflammation

Member of academic organizations 

  • Member of Italian Society of Immunology and Clinical Immunology

  • Member of The Biophysical Society of China (BSC) and The Chinese Society of Toxicology (CST)

  • Guest editor of Frontiers in Immunology, reviewer of Advanced Science, ACS Nano, Small and other specialized scientific journals.

Representative coordinate funding projects

  • NSFC, 32171390, 2022-2025, Host, in processing.

  • NSFC, 31701005, 2018-2020, Host, concluded.

  • International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISS), China-Austria, 172644KYSB20210011, 2021-2024, Host, in processing.

  • Guangdong natural science foundation, 2022A1515010549, 2022-2024, Host, in processing.

Representative papers

  • A Nanomaterial Targeting the Spike Protein Captures SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Promotes Viral Elimination. Guofang Zhang#, Yalin Cong#, Feng-Liang Liu#, Jiufeng Sun#, Jiantian Zhang, Guoli Cao, Lingqiang Zhou, Wenjie Yang, Qingle Song, Fangjun Wang, Ke Liu, Jing Qu, Jing Wang, Min He, Shun Feng, Didar Baimanov, Wei Xu, Rong-Hua Luo, Xin-Yan Long, Shumin Liao, Yunping Fan, Yu-Feng Li, Bai Li, Ximing Shao, Guocheng Wang, Lijing Fang, Huaiyu Wang, Xue-Feng Yu, Yan-Zhong Chang, Yuliang Zhao, Liang Li, Peng Yu, Yong-Tang Zheng*, Diana Boraschi, Hongchang Li*, Chunying Chen*, Liming Wang*, Yang Li*. Nature Nanotechnology, 2022, Published online. doi: 10.1038/s41565-022-01177-2

  • Intrinsic Bioactivity of Black Phosphorus Nanomaterials on Mitotic Centrosome Destabilization through Suppression of PLK1 Kinase. Ximing Shao, Zhihao Ding, Wenhua Zhou, Yanyan Li, Zhibin Li, Haodong Cui, Xian Lin, Guoli Cao, Binghua Cheng, Haiyan Sun, Meiqing Li, Ke Liu, Danyi Lu, Shengyong Geng, Wenli Shi, Guofang Zhang, Qingle Song, Liang Chen, Guocheng Wang, Wu Su, Lintao Cai, Lijing Fang, David Tai Leong, Yang Li*, Xue-Feng Yu* & Hongchang Li*. Nature Nanotechnology, 2021, 16, 1150–1160

  • Microplastics Interact with SARS-CoV-2 and Facilitate Host Cell Infection. Guofang Zhang, Guoli Cao, Rong-Hua Luo, Qingle Song, Yanqiao Zeng, Ke Liu, Jing Qu, Xian Lin,   Feng-Liang Liu, Guocheng Wang, Hongchang Li, Liang Li, Yong-Tang Zheng, Diana Boraschi,   Lidong Wu, Yan-Zhong Chang, Yang Li*. Environmental Science: Nano, 2022, 9: 2653-2664

  • Reinforce the Combinational Immuno-Oncotherapy of Switching “Cold” Tumor to “Hot” by Responsive Penetrating Nanogels. Qingle Song, Guofang Zhang, Bo Wang, Guoli Cao, Dongjie Li, Yu Wang, Yuqian Zhang, Jin Geng, Hongchang Li and Yang Li*. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021, 13(31): 36824-36838

  • The Synergistic Strategies for the Immuno-oncotherapy with Photothermal Nanoagents. Yuqian Zhang, Guofang Zhang, Guocheng Wang, Lidong Wu, Nancy A Monteiro-Riviere, Yang Li*, WIREs: Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology, 2021, e1717

Patents

  • Yang Li&**, 201910968758.7. Application time: 2019.10.12 PCT/CN2019/111656, 2019.10.17

  • Yang Li&**, 2021101742827, Application time: 2021.02.09.

  • Yang Li&**, 2021101839019, Application time: 2021.02.10。

  • Yang Li&**, 202110183434X, Application time: 2021.02.22. PCT/CN2021/077226。

Contact way

Phone number: (0755)86585203
Email: yang.li@siat.ac.cn
Adress: 1068 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen University Town, Shenzhen, P.R.China, 518055