Postdoctoral Fellow - Biomedical Engineering
MIT, Cambridge - 1998

Ph.D. - Chemistry
Harvard University - 1996

B.Sci. - Chemistry
Peking University - 1991

Ding, H.Y.; Sumer, B.D.; Gao, J. Clinical Applications of Heme Biosynthetic Pathway:  Photodynamic Therapy with Protoporphyrin IX, in Heme Biology, Zhang L. Ed.  World  Scientific, Inc. In press. In Press - Publication

Bey, E.A.; Reinicke, K.E.; Srougi, M.C.; Varnes, M.; Anderson, V.E.; Pink, J.J.; Li, L.S.; Patel, M.; Cao. L.; Moore, Z.; Rommel, A.; Boatman, M.; Lewis, C.; Euhus, D.M.; Bornmann, W.G.; Buchsbaum, D.J.; Spitz, D.R.; Gao, J.; Boothman, D.A. Catalase Abrogates -Lapachone-Induced PARP1 Hyperactivation-Directed Programmed Necrosis in NQO1-Positive Breast Cancers. Mol. Cancer Ther. 2013, 12, 2110-2120 2013 - Publication

Huang, G.; Chen, H.; Dong, Y.; Luo, X.; Yu, H.; Moore, Z.; Bey, E.A.; Boothman, D.A.; Gao, J. Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles: Amplifying ROS Stress to Improve Anticancer Drug Efficacy. Theranostics 2013, 3, 116-126. (Article was picked for the journal cover). 2013 - Publication

Zhang, S.; Zhou, K.; Huang, G.; Takahashi, M.; Sherry, A. D.; Gao, J. A Novel Class of Polymeric pH-Responsive MRI CEST Agents. Chem. Comm. 2013, 49, 6418-6420. 2013 - Publication

Huang, X.; Huang, G.; Zhang, S.; Sagiyama, K.; Togao, O.; Ma, X.; Wang, Y.; Li, Y.; Soesbe, T. C.; Sumer, B. D.; Takahashi, M.; Sherry, A. D.; Gao, J. Multi-Chromatic pH-Activatable 19F-MRI Nanoprobes with Binary ON/OFF pH Transitions and Chemical-Shift Barcodes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 8074-8078. 2013 - Publication

Morales, J. C.; Li, L.; Fattah, F. J.; Dong, Y.; Bey, E. A.; Patel, M.; Gao, J.; Boothman D. A. Review of Poly (ADP-Ribose) Polymerase (PARP) Mechanisms of Action and Rationale for Targeting in Cancer and Other Diseases. 2013, Crit. Rev. Eukar. Gene 2013, 23, 195-208 2013 - Publication

Togao, O.; Kessinger, C.W.; Huang, G.; Soesbe, T.C.; Sagiyama, K.; Dimitrov, A.I.; Sherry, D.A.; Gao, J.; Takahashi, M. Characterization of Lung Cancer by Amide Proton Transfer (APT) Imaging: An In-Vivo Study in an Orthotopic Mouse Model. PLoS ONE 2013, 8(10): e77019 2013 - Publication

Regonda, S.; Tian R.; Gao, J.; Greene, S.; Ding, J.; Hu, W. Silicon multi-nanochannel FETs to improve device uniformity/stability and femtomolar detection of insulin in serum. Biosens. Bioelectron., 2013, 45, 245-251. 2013 - Publication