Guangjun Nie, Ph.D.
Distinguished Research Fellow and Deputy Director
The National Center for Nanoscience and Technology
Biography
Dr. Guangjun Nie is a CAS Distinguished Researcher and Deputy Director of the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST) and a Distinguished Professor of NUST. He has served as the Chief Scientist of the National Major Scientific Research Programme on Nanoresearch (973) of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the recipient of the National Distinguished Young Persons Fund (NDYPF), and was selected as one of the "Introduction of Outstanding Talents from Abroad" programme of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) with excellent graduation results. He is an expert of the State Council with special government allowance, and the leader of the Lu Jiaxi International Team of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), an Adjunct Professor of the Houston Methodist Research Institute (Houston, USA), an Advanced Newton Scholar of the British Academy of Medical Sciences, an Honorary Professor of the University of Queensland (Queensland, Australia), and the first Director of the Materials, Biology and Precision Therapeutics Section of the Chinese Society of Biophysics. Biology and Precision Therapeutics Section of the Chinese Biophysical Society.
Since returning to China in 2008, he has established a laboratory of "Nanobiology and Nanobiomaterials" at the National Centre for Nanoscience, built up a 50-member multidisciplinary research team, established good cooperation with a number of renowned nanomedicine and life science laboratories in the US, UK, Australia and Canada, and collaborated with six Chinese nanomedicine and life science experts. We have established good cooperation with many renowned nanomedicine and life science laboratories in the US, UK, Australia and Canada, and have collaborated with 6 visiting professors from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The group has trained nearly 100 Ph.D., postdoctoral, master and undergraduate students. The group has trained many professors and many of them are working in universities, hospitals, companies and other departments. He has received teaching awards such as the Outstanding Mentor Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Mentor Award of SABIC-CAS Scholarship of CAS, the Mentor Research Award of BHP Billiton (Australia) of CAS, the Zhu-Li Yuehua Outstanding Teacher Award of CAS, and the Outstanding Undergraduate Supervisor of College of Materials of CAS.
He has published 230 papers in Nature Biotechnology, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Reviews Materials, Nature Communications and other important international academic journals; applied for 40 patents for anti-tumour applications and other related inventions ( He has applied for 40 patents related to anti-tumour applications (20 Chinese patents, 3 US patents and 4 patent transfers). The related research results have also been highlighted by Nature Biotechnology, Nature Materials, Science Translational Medicine, etc. Several articles have been selected as ESI highly cited papers. The development of intelligent DNA nanomachines for tumour therapy was selected as one of the top 10 scientific and technological advances in China in 2018.
Education
1999
1996
1992
BS
Northeast Normal University, China
MS
Jilin University, China
PHD
Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Professional Appointments
Postdoc
McGill University, Canada
2002
2008-present
"Hundred Talents Program" Professor
The National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China
Awards and Honours
2016
China Pharmaceutical Association-Yiling biomedical Youth Award
2017
2018
2019
2020
2022
First prize of Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Award
First prize of Science and Technology Award of China anti-cancer Association
Second-class prize of Science and Technology Award of Chinese Pharmaceutical Association
First-class prize of Beijing Science and Technology Award
2022
Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
First Prize of Overseas Chinese Contribution Award
Academic Appointments
2023-present
Guest Editor
European Journal of Immunology
2022-present
2022-present
2022-present
2021-present
2021-present
2020-present
2019-present
2018-present
2016-present
Associate Editor
Life Medicine
Guest Editor
Advanced Drug Development Reviews
BMEMat
Editorial Board Member
Editorial Board Member
Exploration
Editorial Board Member
Fundamental Research
Advisory Editor
Nano Today
Editor
Science China Chemistry
Associate Editor
Nano Letters
Editorial Board Member
Materials Today Chemistry
Address
CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials & Nanosafety
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China
11 Beiyijie, Zhongguancun
Beijing 100190, China
Contact Information
Tel: (010)8254-5638
Email: niegj@nanoctr.cn
