April/2025
Dr Chengchen Zhang has received the Wessex Medical Innovation Fund from the Wessex Medical Trust!
April/2025
Our paper "Rational Design of Site-specific Artificial Metallonucleases for Therapeutic Applications" has been accepted by Microchemical Journal!
Xi Lu, Chengchen Zhang*, "Rational Design of Site-specific Artificial Metallonucleases for Therapeutic Applications". Microchemical Journal (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microc.2025.113736 )
March/2025
Our paper "An Off-Chip Platform for On-Demand, Single-Target Encapsulation for Ultrasensitive Biomarker Detection" has been accepted by Biosensors and Bioelectronics!
Yuxin Zhang, Jiahao Zheng, Bayinqiaoge, Tim Cole, Chengchen Zhang*, Yi Wang*, and Shi-Yang Tang*, "An Off-Chip Platform for On-Demand, Single-Target Encapsulation for Ultrasensitive Biomarker Detection". Biosensors and Bioelectronics (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2025.117134 )
March/2025
Dr Chengchen Zhang and the collabortor Dr Xu Fang received 2025 ECS Pump-Priming Fund from the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK.
March/2025
Our paper "Hairpin-locker mediated CRISPR/Cas tandem system for ultrasensitive detection of DNA without pre-amplification" has been accepted by Microchemical Journal!
Jan/2025
Mr Xi Lu received PhD scholarship and joined our group in Jan 2025!
20/Oct/2024
Our paper, "Circular DNA amplifier enhanced CRISPR/Cas12 assays could highly sensitively detect Porphyromonas gingivalis with no pre-amplification," has been accepted by Microchemical Journal! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microc.2024.111983
Oct/2024
Dr Yunshu Ma received fully-funded grant to visit our group as a Visiting Scholar and joined us in Oct 2024. Dr Ma is an Associate Professor from the School of Pharmacy in the Xuzhou Medical University, China.
Sep/2024
Ms Xin Wang received PhD scholarship and joined our group in Sep 2024!
06/Sep/2024
Dr Chengchen Zhang gave a talk at the BioMed Eng24, London, UK.
20/August/2024
Our paper, "Composites from Amyloid Fibrils and Liquid Metals," has been accepted by Advanced Functional Materials!
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adfm.202405918
06/August/2024
Dr Chengchen Zhang has been awarded the Fellowship of the HEA (FHEA) from the Advance HE, UK.
July/2024
Our paper, "Point-of-care testing of Procalcitonin using lateral flow assay," has been accepted by 2024 IEEE EMBC.
July/2024
Dr Chengchen Zhang has been awarded the 2023/2024 Dean’s Award for Exceptional Contribution to the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, UK.
24/July/2024
Dr. Chengchen Zhang represented the Digital Health and Biomedical Engineering group and introduced the Biomedical Engineering program to prospective students in the "Which Engineering" video, produced by the marketing team at the University of Southampton.
June/2024
Dr Chengchen Zhang was invited to attended the 2024 ANZNMF Conference in Orange NSW, Australia.
April/2024
Mr Bayinqiaoge received PhD scholarship and joined our group in June 2024!
June/2024
Dr Chengchen Zhang gave a talk at the 14th International NanoMedicine Conference, Sydney, Australia, as an Invited Speaker & Session Chair.
28/May/2024
Dr Chengchen Zhang received 2024 ECS Pump-Priming Fund from the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK.
28/Mar/2024
Dr Chengchen Zhang receive the International Exchanges 2023 from the Royal Society as the lead PI. This grant was submitted last Sep, marking her first month of the new journey at Southampton.
19/Feb/2024
Dr Chengchen Zhang received the standard Royal Society Research Grant as the solo PI! This is her first successful research grant, marking a significant milestone in her academic journey.
Feb/2024
Dr Chengchen Zhang was invited to join the Health Nanotechnology (BMC, part of Springer Nature) as an founding Associate Editor.
Nov/2023
Dr Chengchen Zhang conducted her inaugural lecture as a lecturer!
Nov/2023
Dr Chengchen Zhang was invited to gave a talk in BRC Science Forum, entitled "A CRISPR/Cas and metal nanoparticles powered biosensing platform".
5/Sep/2023
Dr. Chengchen Zhang has embarked on a new academic journey as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Digital Health & Biomedical Engineering (DHBE) at the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), University of Southampton, UK.
23/August/2023
Dr Chengchen Zhang has been awarded the prestigious Newton International Fellowship from the Royal Socity, UK!
July/2023
Dr Chengchen Zhang joined Prof. Ewa Goldys's group as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (November 2022 - July 2023), focusing on the development of CRISPR/Cas-powered point-of-care biosensors.
(Images sourced from:
https://nanobiophotounsw.wordpress.com/2023/07/28/farewell-dr-chengchen-zhang/)
July/2023
Dr Chengchen Zhang gave a talk at the 13th International NanoMedicine Conference and received the Best Oral Presentation Award!
Nov-Dec/2022
Dr Chengchen Zhang received her PhD from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia, under the supervision of Prof. Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh. The image captures the moment she received her PhD completion letter in November 2022, with the degree officially conferred in December 2022.
Dr Zhang's PhD thesis focused on exploring the interactions between biological molecules and organic materials with gallium-based liquid metals for the design of therapeutics and sensors.
May/2022
Chengchen delivered a 5-minute poster talk at the 2022 MRS Spring Meeting, where she was honored with the Best Poster Award!