Gaojian Chen is a Professor at Soochow University, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, an editor of Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces. He received his PhD from the University of Warwick and has held postdoctoral positions at the University of New South Wales and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on the design and synthesis of novel bio-materials, with a particular emphasis on surface modification, cell interactions, and carbohydrate-based materials.
Selected articles
1. Zhang, H., Heng, X., Yang, H., Rao, Y., Yao, L., Zhu, Z., Chen, G., Chen, H. (2024). Metal‐Free Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization to Prepare Recylable Micro-Adjuvants for Dendritic Cell Vaccine. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 63(24), e202402853.
2. Guo, J., Wang, S., Yu, Z., Heng, X., Zhou, N., Chen, G. (2024). Well-Defined Oligo(azobenzene- graft -mannose): Photostimuli Supramolecular Self-Assembly and Immune Effect Regulation. ACS Macro Letters, 13(3), 273–279.
3. Yang, H., Yao, L., Wang, Y., Chen, G., Chen, H. (2023). Advancing cell surface modification in mammalian cells with synthetic molecules. Chemical Science, 14(46), 13325–13345.
4. Heng, X., Feng, R., Zhu, L., Yu, L., Chen, G., Chen, H. (2022). Dendritic cells maturation facilitated by group-adjustable lipopolysaccharide analogues synthesized via RAFT polymerization. Chinese Chemical Letters, 33(9), 4331–4334.
5. Yu, L., Feng, R., Zhu, L., Hao, Q., Chu, J., Gu, Y., Luo, Y., Zhang, Z., Chen, G., Chen, H. (2020). Promoting the activation of T cells with glycopolymer-modified dendritic cells by enhancing cell interactions. Science Advances, 6(47), eabb6595.
6. Luo, Y., Gu, Y., Feng, R., Brash, J., Eissa, A. M., Haddleton, D. M., Chen, G., Chen, H. (2019). Synthesis of glycopolymers with specificity for bacterial strains via bacteria-guided polymerization. Chemical Science, 10(20), 5251–5257.
Book chapters
1. Feng, K., Hu, J., & Chen, G. (2021).Surface Immobilized Glycopolymers. In J. Barchi (Ed.), Comprehensive Glycoscience (2nd ed., 346–369). Elsevier.
2. Zhang, W., Chen, K. & Chen, G. (2016) Thiol-Based “Click” Chemistry for Macromolecular Architecture Design, in S. Chandrasekaran (Ed.), Click Reactions in Organic Synthesis (255-285). Wiley-VCH.
3. Li, X., Zhang, W., & Chen, G. (2016). Synthesis of Non-spherical Glycopolymer-Decorated Nanoparticles: Combing Thiol-ene with Catecholic Chemistry. In X. L. Sun (Ed.), Macro-Glycoligands. Methods in Molecular Biology (149–155). Springer.
4. Zhao, Y., Chen, G. & Chen G. (2015). Self-Assembly of Glycopolymers: From Nano-Objects to Hydrogels. In C. R. Becer & L. Hartmann (Ed.), Glycopolymer Code: Synthesis of Glycopolymers and their Applications (178-195). The Royal Society of Chemistry.
5. Pearson, S., Chen, G., & Stenzel, M. H. (2011). Synthesis of Glycopolymers. In R. Narain (Ed.), Engineered Carbohydrate-Based Materials for Biomedical Applications (1–118). John Wiley & Sons.