Patents

10-   Weiping Wang, Kaiqi Long, Shuting Xu, Photoactivatable prodrug nanoparticles for combined anti-angiogenesis and photodynamic therapy, US Provisional Patent Application (HKU TTO No. IP01091, 2021)

9-   Weiping Wang, Yuwei Liu, Kaiqi Long, A photoresponsive prodrug for targeted therapy, US Provisional Patent Application (HKU TTO No. IP01089, 2021)

8-   Weiping Wang, Yaming Zhang, ROS-responsive prodrug and compositions and methods of thereof, US Provisional Patent (No. 63/221,318, 2021)

7-   Weiping Wang, Tianyi Wang, Kaiqi Long, Compositions and Methods of optochemical control of mTOR signaling and mTOR-dependent autophagy, US Provisional Patent, (No. 63/215,814, 2021)

6-   Weiping Wang, Yang Zhou, Yafei Li, A photoresponsive protein delivery system based on a modified PAMAM and methods thereof, US Provisional Patent (No. 63/209,078, 2021)

5-   Weiping Wang, Yafei Li, Compositions and methods of macropinocytosis inhibitors to treat cancers, US Provisional Patent (No. 63/188,803, 2021)

4-   Weiping Wang, Kaiqi Long, A controlled drug release system of photoresponsive nanocarriers, methods of making and using thereof, PCT Patent (No. PCT/CN2021/081262, 2021)

3-   Weiping Wang, Wen Lyv, Triplet-triplet energy transfer with light excitation at long wavelengths and methods thereof, PCT Patent (No. PCT/CN2019/101689, 2019), Chinese Patent (No. 201980054786.6, 2021), US Patent (No. 17/262,452, 2021).

2-   Daniel S. Kohane, Weiping Wang, Qian Liu, Triplet-triplet annihilation-based upconversion, PCT Patent (No. PCT/US2016/040271, 2016), US Patent (No. 15/740,396, 2018)

1-  Long-Ping Wen, Yongping Chen, Xin Guo, Yuanyuan Shen, Weiping Wang, Brian Zhang, Transdermal delivery peptides and method of use thereof, US Patent (No. US11/531,879, 2006)

Articles

40-  Tianyi Wang, Kaiqi Long, Yang Zhou, Xiaoding Jiang, Jinzhao Liu, John H.C. Fong, Alan S.L. Wong, Wai-Lung Ng, Weiping Wang*, Optochemical Control of mTOR Signaling and mTOR-dependent Autophagy, 2021, Submitted

39-  Kaiqi Long, Yifan Wang, Wen Lv, Yang Yang, Shuting Xu, Changyou Zhan, Weiping Wang*, Photoresponsive Prodrug Nanoparticles Co-assembled with IR783 for Cancer Therapy, 2021, Submitted

38-  Yafei Li, Yang Zhou, Kaiqi Long, Yaming Zhang, Tianyi Wang, Weiping Wang*, Photoenhanced cytosolic protein delivery based on a photocleavable group-modified dendrimer, 2021, Nanoscale, In revision

37-  Kaiqi Long, Yang Yang, Wen Lv, Kuan Jiang, Yafei Li, Amy Cheuk Yin Lo, Wai Ching Lam, Changyou Zhan*, Weiping Wang*, Green light-triggered intraocular drug release for intravenous chemotherapy of retinoblastoma, Advanced Science, 2021, 2101754

36-  Manman Jing¹, Yafei Li¹, Meimei Wang, Hao Zhang, Pengfei Wei, Yang Zhou, Nestor Ishimwe, Xiaowan Huang, Liansheng Wang, Longping Wen*, Weiping Wang*, Yunjiao Zhang*, Photoresponsive PAMAM-assembled nanocarrier loaded with autophagy inhibitor for synergistic cancer therapy, Small, 2021, Accepted

35-  Yafei Li, Wen Lv, Lang Wang, Yaming Zhang, Lipeng Yang, Tianyi Wang, Linyong Zhu, Yufeng Wang, Weiping Wang*, Photo-triggered nucleus targeting for cancer drug delivery, Nano Research, 2021, 14, 2630–2636

34-  Huan Wang, Tianhao Ding, Juan Guan, Xia Liu, Jing Wang, Pengpeng Jin, Shuangxing Hou, Weiyue Lu, Jun Qian, Weiping Wang and Changyou Zhan*, Interrogation of folic acid functionalized nanomedicines: the regulatory roles of plasma proteins reexamined, ACS Nano, 2020, 14, 14779–14789

33-  Wen Lv, Kaiqi Long, Yang Yang, Sijie Chen, Changyou Zhan and Weiping Wang*, A Red Light-Triggered Drug Release System Based on One-Photon Upconversion-Like Photolysis, Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2020, 2001118

32-  Fang Wang, Rengan Luo, Hao Xin, Yaming Zhang, Bernardino J. Córdova Wong, Weiping Wang* and Jianping Lei*, Hypoxia-stimulated tumor therapy associated with the inhibition of cancer cell stemness, Biomaterials, 2020, 263, 120330

31-  Kaiqi Long, Yuwei Liu, Yafei Li and Weiping Wang*, Self-assembly of trigonal building blocks into nanostructures: molecular design and biomedical applications, Journal of Materials Chemistry B , 2020, 8, 6739--6752 (Emerging Investigator Themed Collection, Invited review)

30-  Wen Lv and Weiping Wang*, One-Photon Upconversion-Like Photolysis: A New Strategy to Achieve Long-Wavelength Light-Excitable Photolysis, Synlett, 2020, 31, 1129-1134 (Synpacts, Invited review)

29-  Han Han¹, Yun Li¹, Zhen Peng, Kaiqi Long, Chunli Zheng, Weiping Wang*, Thomas J. Webster*, Liang Ge* A Soluplus/Poloxamer 407-based self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery system for the weakly basic drug carvedilol to improve its bioavailability, Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, 2020, 27, 102199

28-  Wen Lv, Yafei Li, Feiyang Li, Xin Lan, Yaming Zhang, Lili Du, Qiang Zhao, David L. Phillips, Weiping Wang*, Upconversion-like photolysis of BODIPY-based prodrugs via a one-photon process, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019, 141, 44, 17482-17486

27-  Yanfei Wang, Chi-Hsiu Liu, Tianjiao Jia, Manisha Mehta, Weiping Wang, Elizabeth Marino, Jing Chen and Daniel S. Kohane*, Intravenous treatment of choroidal neovascularization by photo-targeted nanoparticles, Nature Communications, 2019, 10, 804

26-  Zhixiong Wang, Yaming Zhang, Bing Cao, Zhong Ji, Wanling Luo, Shaodong Zhai, Dandan Zhang, Weiping Wang, Da Xing and Xianglong Hu*, Explosible Nanocapsules Excited by Pulsed Microwave for Efficient Thermoacoustic-Chemo Combination Therapy, Nanoscale, 2019, 11, 1710-1719

25-  Christopher Weldon, Tianjiao Ji, Minh-Thuy Nguyen, Alina Rwei, Weiping Wang, Yi Hao, Chao Zhao, Manisha Mehta, Bruce Y. Wang, Jonathan Tsui, Robert P. Marini and Daniel S. Kohane*, Nanoscale Bupivacaine Formulations to Enhance the Duration and Safety of Intravenous Regional Anesthesia, ACS Nano, 2019, 13, 18-25

24-  Jintong Liu, Ping Du, Tianrui Liu, Bernardino J. Córdova Wong, Weiping Wang, Huangxian Ju and Jianping Lei*, A black phosphorus/manganese dioxide nanoplatform: Oxygen self-supply monitoring, photodynamic therapy enhancement and feedback, Biomaterials, 2019, 192, 179-188

23-  Changyou Zhan, Claudia M. Santamaria, Weiping Wang, Brian J. McAlvin and Daniel S. Kohane*, Long-acting Liposomal corneal anesthetics, Biomaterials, 2018, 18, 372-377

22-  Yafei Li, Yaming Zhang and Weiping Wang*, Phototriggered targeting of nanocarriers for drug delivery, Nano Research, 2018, 11, 5424–5438 (Invited Review)

21- Yanfei Wang¹, Aoune Barhoumi¹, Rong Tong¹, Weiping Wang, Tianjiao Ji, Xiaoran Deng, Lele Li, Sophie A. Lyon, Gally Reznor, David Zurakowski and Daniel S. Kohane*, BaTiO3-core Au-shell nanoparticles for photothermal therapy and bimodal imaging, Acta Biomaterialia, 2018, 72, 287-294

20-  Junjie Li, Yafei Li, Yuheng Wang, Wendong Ke, Weijian Chen, Weiping Wang* and Zhishen Ge*, Polymer prodrug-based nanoreactors activated by tumor acidity for orchestrated oxidation/chemotherapy, Nano Letters, 2017, 17, 6983–6990

19-  Alina Y. Rwei¹, Juan L. Paris¹, Bruce Wang, Weiping Wang, Christopher D. Axon, Maria Vallet-Regi, Robert Langer and Daniel S. Kohane*, Ultrasound triggered local anesthesia, Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2017, 1, 644-653 (Highlighted on the journal cover)

18-  Rong Yang, Tuo Wei, Hannah Goldberg, Weiping Wang, Kathleen Cullion and Daniel S. Kohane*, Getting drugs across biological barriers, Advanced Materials, 2017, 29, 1606596

17-  Changyou Zhan, Weiping Wang, Claudia Santamaria, Bruce Wang, Alina Rwei, Brian P. Timko and Daniel S. Kohane*, Ultrasensitive phototriggered local anesthesia, Nano Letters, 2017, 17, 660-665

16-  Paula Zaman, Julia Wang, Adam Blau, Weiping Wang, Tina Li, Daniel S. Kohane, Joseph Loscalzo and Ying-Yi Zhang*, Incorporation of heparin-binding proteins into pre-formed dextran sulfate-chitosan nanoparticles, International Journal of Nanomedicine, 2016, 11, 6149–6159

15- Qian Liu¹, Weiping Wang¹, Changyou Zhan¹, Tianshe Yang and Daniel S. Kohane*, Enhanced precision of nanoparticle phototargeting in vivo at a safe irradiance, Nano Letters, 2016, 16, 4516-4520

14-  Rong Yang, Viskakha Sabharwal, Obiajulu S. Okonkwo, Nadya Shlykova, Rong Tong, Lily Y. Lin, Weiping Wang, Shutao Guo, John J. Rosowski, Stephen I. Pelton and Daniel S. Kohane*, Treatment of otitis media by trans-tympanic delivery of antibiotics, Science Translational Medicine, 2016, 8, 356ra120 (Highlighted on the journal cover)

13-  Shutao Guo, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Aoune Barhoumi, Weiping Wang, Changyou Zhan, Rong Tong, Claudia Santamaria and Daniel S. Kohane*, Extended release of native drug conjugated in polyketal microparticles, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2016, 138, 6127-6130

12-  Qian Liu, Changyou Zhan, Aoune Barhoumi, Weiping Wang, Claudia Santamaria, James B. McAlvin and Daniel S. Kohane*, A Supramolecular shear-thinning anti-inflammatory steroid hydrogel, Advanced Materials, 2016, 28, 6680-6686

11- Changyou Zhan, Weiping Wang, James B. McAlvin, Shutao Guo, Brian P. Timko, Claudia Santamaria and Daniel S. Kohane*, Phototriggered Local Anesthesia, Nano Letters, 2016, 16, 177-181

10- Weiping Wang¹, Qian Liu¹, Changyou Zhan, Aoune Barhoumi, Tianshe Yang, Ryan G. Wylie, Patrick A. Armstrong and Daniel S. Kohane*, Efficient triplet-triplet annihilation-based upconversion for nanoparticle phototargeting, Nano Letters, 2015, 15, 6332-6338 (Highlighted on the journal cover)

9- Alina Y. Rwei¹, Weiping Wang¹ and Daniel S. Kohane*, Photoresponsive nanoparticles for drug delivery, Nano Today, 2015, 10, 451-467

8- Andrew R. Bader, Tina Li, Weiping Wang, Daniel S. Kohane, Joseph Loscalzo and Ying-Yi Zhang*, Preparation and characterization of SDF-1alpha-chitosan-dextran sulfate nanoparticles, Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2015, e52323

7- Lele Li¹, Rong Tong¹, Hunghao Chu, Weiping Wang, Robert Langer and Daniel S. Kohane*, Aptamer photoregulation in vivo, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014, 111, 17099-17103

6- Aoune Barhoumi, Weiping Wang, David Zurakowski, Robert S. Langer and Daniel S. Kohane*, Photothermally targeted thermosensitive polymer-masked nanoparticles, Nano Letters, 2014, 14, 3697–3701

5- Liguo Jiang, Weiping Wang, Ying Chau and Shuhuai Yao*, Controllable formation of aromatic nanoparticle in a 3D hydrodynamic flow focusing microfluidic device, RSC Advances, 2013, 3, 17762-17769

4- Weiping Wang and Ying Chau*, Self-assembly mediated platform for rapid and facile preparation of peptide-functionalized nanoparticles with high stability, Chemistry of Materials, 2012, 24, 946-953 (2012 Special Issue on Materials for Biological Applications)

3- Weiping Wang and Ying Chau*, Efficient and facile formation of nanoparticles via aromatic moiety directed self-assembly, Chemical Communications, 2011, 47, 10224-10226 (Featured on Chemical Communications Blog) (Highlighted on the journal cover)

2- Weiping Wang and Ying Chau*, Self-assembled peptide nanorods as building blocks of fractal patterns, Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4893-4898 (Featured in Highlights in Chemical Science; Twice in the Top 10 list of most downloaded Soft Matter articles of the month) (Highlighted on the journal cover)

1- Weiping Wang, Zhimou Yang, Siamrut Patanavanich, Bing Xu and Ying Chau*, Controlling self-assembly within nanospace for peptide nanoparticle fabrication, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 1617-1620