dr. qinghua xu
associate professor
school of pharmaceutical sciences
south-central minzu university, wuhan, china
e-mail: xuqh@scuec.edu.cn
education
2007.09 - 2011.07: b.s. in basic chemistry, collage of chemistry and molecular sciences, wuhan university
2011.09 - 2016.12: ph.d. in polymer chemistry and physics, changchun institute of applied chemistry, chinese academy of sciences
professional experiences
2023.10 – present: associate professor, school of pharmaceutical sciences, south-central minzu university
2022. 11 - 2023.09: assistant professor, school of materials science and engineering, hubei university
2020.02 - 2022.05: postdoctoral associate, davidson school of chemical engineering, purdue university
2017.06 - 2020.01: postdoctoral associate, department of fiber science & apparel design, cornell university
research interests
[1] design of bioactive hydrogels and their applications in three-dimensional cell culture, tissue engineering and drug delivery
[2] preparation of stimuli responsive nanoparticles for controlled drug delivery
selected recent publicaions
[1] mazin h hakim, brian h jun, adib ahmadzadegan, paulina m babiak, qinghua xu, kevin p buno, julie c liu, arezoo m ardekani, pavlos p vlachos*, luis solorio*. investigation of macromolecular transport through tunable collagen hyaluronic acid matrices. colloids and surfaces b: biointerfaces, 222 (2023) 113123.
[2] qinghua xu*, jessica e. torres, mazin hakim, paulina m. babiak, pallabi pal, carly m. battitoni, michael nguyen, alyssa panitch, luis solorio, julie liu*. collagen- and hyaluronic acid-based hydrogels and their biomedical applications. materials science and engineering r, 146 (2021) 100641.
[3] qinghua xu, chih-chang chu*. a novel pseudo-protein-based ros-responsive nanoparticle for anticancer drug delivery. journal of biomedical materials research part a, 2021, 109a: 524-537.
[4] hiu yee kwan, qinghua xu, ruihong gong, zhaoxiang bian, chih-chang chu. targeted chinese medicine delivery by a new family of biodegradable pseudo-protein nanoparticles for treating triple-negative breast cancer: in vitro and in vivo study. frontiers in oncology, 2020 (10), 600298.
[5] zhen zhang, chaoliang he, qinghua xu, xiuli zhuang, xuesi chen. preparation of poly (l-glutamic acid)-based hydrogels via diels-alder reaction and study on their biomolecule-responsive properties. acta polymerica sinica, 2018 (1) 99-108.
[6] qinghua xu, chaoliang he*, chunsheng xiao, xuesi chen*. injectable polypeptide hydrogel as biomimetic scaffolds with tunable bioactivity and controllable cell adhesion. biomacromolecules, 2017, 18 (4), 1411–1418.
[7] qinghua xu, chaoliang he*, zhen zhang, kaixuan ren, xuesi chen*. injectable, biomolecule-responsive polypeptide hydrogels with triggered degradation capacity for cell encapsulation and facile cell recovery. acs applied materials & interfaces, 2016, 8 (45), 30692-30702.
[8] qinghua xu, chaoliang he*, kaixuan ren, chunsheng xiao, xuesi chen*. thermosensitive polypeptide hydrogels as a platform for ros-triggered cargo release with innate cytoprotective ability under oxidative stress. advanced healthcare materials, 2016, 5 (15); 1979-1990.
[9] qinghua xu, chaoliang he*, chunsheng xiao, and xuesi chen*. reactive oxygen species (ros) responsive polymers for biomedical applications. macromolecular bioscience, 2016; 16 (5); 635-646.
[10] qinghua xu, chaoliang he*, chunsheng xiao, shuangjiang yu and xuesi chen*. ε-methacryloyl-l-lysine based polypeptides and their thiol-ene click functionalization. polymer chemistry, 2015; 6; 1758-1767.
