曹宇虹，国家纳米科学中心研究员，博士生导师。博士毕业于美国斯坦福大学材料科学与工程（博士导师Nicholas Melosh教授），并在博士期间研发多种纳米材料用于细胞基因调控以及活体细胞检测。毕业后于美国加州大学伯克利分校从事博士后研究工作（导师杨培东院士）并与Jennifer A. Doudna院士合作研发药物递送器件。其后在斯坦福大学从事博士后工作（导师朱棣文院士）。研究方向专注于细胞，生物组织与纳米材料介面的相互作用，利用纳米技术，微流控技术，基因编辑技术，单分子追踪技术，以及纳米芯片制造技术设计研发新型生物医疗器材和细胞制备方法。相关研究成果发表于PNAS, Science Advances, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, Joules, Advanced Materials Interfaces等期刊 13 余篇。担任Science Advances，Nanotechnology，Nanomedicine等杂志审稿人。申请国际专利4项，已获专利1项，转让专利1项于美国NAVAN Biotech公司（https://www.navanbio.com/）。

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研究方向专注于细胞，生物组织与纳米材料介面的相互作用，利用纳米技术，微流控技术，基因编辑技术，单分子追踪技术，以及纳米芯片制造技术设计研发新型生物医疗器材和细胞制备方法。

Yuhong Cao, Martin Hjort, Haodong Chen, Fikri Birey, Sergio Leal-Ortiz, Crystal M. Han, Juan G. Santiago, Sergiu P. Pa？ca, Joseph C. Wu, Nicholas A. Melosh, “Non-Destructive Nanostraw Intracellular Sampling for Longitudinal Cell Monitoring” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017, 114 (10) E1866-E1874.[Highlight by Science, Cozzarelli Award by National Academy of Sciences (Annual best paper of PNAS)].

Yuhong Cao, Haodong Chen, Ruoyi Qiu, Enbo Ma, Richard Lewis, Joseph C. Wu, Nicholas A. Melosh, “Nanostraw-Electroporation for Universal Biomolecules Intracellular Delivery with Dosage Quantitative Control” Science Advances 2018, 4, 10.

Yuhong Cao, Enbo Ma, Stefano Cestellos-Blanco, Bei Zhang, Ruoyi Qiu, Yude Su, Jennifer A. Doudna, and Peidong Yang, “Nontoxic Nanopore Electroporation for Effective Intracellular delivery of Biological Macromolecules”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Apr 2019, 116 (16) 7899-7904.

Zhongwen Chen#, Yuhong Cao# (Equal contribution), Chun-Wei Lin, Steven Alvarez, Dongmyung Oh, Peidong Yang*, Jay Groves*, “Nanopore Mediated Protein Delivery Enabling 3-color Single Molecule Tracking in Living Cells”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (In Press).

Huan Zhang#,Yuhong Cao# (Equal Contribution), Stefano Cestellos-Blanco, Bei Zhang, Yuan Chen, Dawei Xu, Makita Landry*, Peidong Yang*, “Gold Nanoclusters-Meditated Intracellular Delivery of siRNA to Intact Plant Cells for Efficient Gene Knockdown”. Nano Letters (Under Review).