【TITLE & POSITION】Associate Professor

【ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS】Member of the American Heart Association, Member of the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering

【CONTACT INFORMATION】E-mail: yangzhouyun.xie@cqu.edu.cn

【PERSONAL PROFILE】

Dr. Yangzhouyun Xie received her Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2019. She conducted postdoctoral research at the Southern University of Science and Technology from 2020 to 2021 and worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, from 2021 to 2026. Her research focuses on nanomedicine, vascular biology, biomaterials, and vascular remodeling. She has published24 SCI-indexed papers in journals including Nature Communication, Cardiovascular Research, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Advanced Functional Materials, with total citations exceeding 2,500, and has been granted 4 Chinese invention patents.

【RESEARCH INTERESTS】

1. Biomaterials and their anti-infective applications

2. Elucidating the mechanisms of vascular smooth muscle phenotypic transformation

【REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS】

1. Yangzhouyun Xie; Tonghui Lin; Ying Jin; Alexa G Berezowitz; Xue-Lin Wang; Jinny Lu; Yujun Cai; Raul J Guzman; Smooth muscle cell-specific MMP-3 deletion reduces osteogenic transformation and medial artery calcification, Cardiovascular Research, 2024, 120(6): 658-670

2. Yangzhouyun Xie; Junchuang Yang; Jiangjiang Zhang; Wenfu Zheng; Xingyu Jiang; Activating Antibacterial Effect of 4,6-Diamino-2-Pyrimidinethiol-Modified Gold Nanoparticles by Reducing their Sizes, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59(52)

3. Yangzhouyun Xie; Yong Liu; Junchuan Yang; Yuan Liu; Fupin Hu; Kui Zhu; Xingyu Jiang; Gold Nanoclusters for Targeting Methicillin‐Resistant Staphylococcus aureus In Vivo, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2018, 57(15)

4. Yangzhouyun Xie; Yunlei Xianyu; Nuoxin Wang; Zhaoyang Yan; Yong Liu; Kui Zhu; Nikos S Hatzakis; Xingyu Jiang; Functionalized Gold Nanoclusters Identify Highly Reactive Oxygen Species in Living Organisms, Advanced Functional Materials, 2018, 28(14)

5. Yangzhouyun Xie; Qiang Zhang; Wenfu Zheng; Xingyu Jiang; Small Molecule-Capped Gold Nanoclusters for Curing Skin Infections, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021, 13(30): 35306-35314