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Zeng Research Group

Department of Chemistry

Zeng Group News

Our group received a Collaborative Research Development Grant with Drs. Andrew Godwin (KUMC) and Joanna Burdette (UIC) from the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance (OCRA) to develop methods for early detection of ovarian cancer
February 11, 2020
Yang Yang started his new position as a Postdoc at the University of Washington Seattle. Congrats and wish you the best, Yang!
February 1, 2020
Yang successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Yang!
January 17, 2020
He and Shibo joined us as postdoc scholars, welcome on board!
January 15, 2020
Boonta's work on microfluidic paper chip for exosome detection has been accepted by Electrophoresis. Congrats!
December 4, 2019
Xin's work on dPCR was just accepted for publication by Lab on a Chip. Good work!
November 5, 2019
Xin and Gopi presented posters at the 2019 ACS MWRM.
October 17, 2019
Yong gave a talk at Wayne State University
September 24, 2019
Xin been awarded the Leedy/Kuwana Award to attend 2020 Pittcon in Chicago! Good job, Xin!
September 12, 2019
We received a pilot project award from KU Alzheimer's Disease Center to study liquid biopsy for AD diagnosis
September 6, 2019
Our group received a five-year R01 grant from NCI to support our EV studies!
September 5, 2019
Dr Zeng gave a talk at the Cambridge Healthtech’s 4th Annual Enabling Technologies for Circulating Biomarkers Conference
August 21, 2019
Our nano-HB chip is featured in the Editorial: Clever chip designs for diagnostics (Nat. Biomed. Eng., 2019, 3, 417) and the News: Enhanced detection of tumour-secreted vesicles (Nat. Biomed. Eng., 2019, 3, 421).
June 8, 2019
Dr Zeng gave a talk at the University of Florida
May 30, 2019
Our work on exosome nanochip featured in the JAMA Network! The Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA, is the most widely circulated general medical journal in the world.Congrats to all authors!
May 14, 2019
Yang was awarded "Burton & Cheryle MacKenzie Scholarship" from the KU Chemistry department. Congrats!
May 11, 2019
Xin received "The George Wilson Prize" from the KU Chemistry department. Congrats!
May 11, 2019
Peng's paper on multiplexed exosome nanochip accepted by Chemical Science. Congratulations to all co-authors!
April 19, 2019
Gopi presented a poster at the Biomedical Sciences Symposium at KU! Congrats!
April 18, 2019
Dr Zeng presented at the 2019 AACR annual meeting in Atlanta.
March 31, 2019
Feel thrilled and honored to see our work being blogged by NIH Director Dr. Collins! Congrats to all the coauthors!
March 21, 2019
Dr Zeng co-chaired a symposium "Molecular Analysis of Liquid Biopsies for Precision Medicine" at Pittcon 2019.
March 19, 2019
Our group is highlighted in KU News
February 25, 2019
Our work is featured by media
February 25, 2019
Peng's paper on 3D nano-engineered exosome chip accepted by Nature Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations to all co-authors!
November 26, 2018
Peng's paper on microfluidic digital mRNA analysis chip accepted by Lab on a Chip. Congratulations to all the authors!
November 19, 2018
Yang's paper on microfluidic communicating vessel chip was accepted for publication in Lab on a Chip. Congratulations, Yang!
October 25, 2018
Dr. Cao's paper on miRNA analysis was accepted for publication in Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical. Congratulations, Hongmei!
September 28, 2018
We had a new home! We has moved to the new Integrated Science Building (ISB)!
August 3, 2018
Dr. Zeng was promoted to associate professor with tenure. Special thanks to the whole group for all the hard work to make this happen!
March 13, 2018
Dr Zeng chaired a symposium "Nanomaterials-Inspired Biosensing for Biomedical Applicationss" at Pittcon 2018
February 26, 2018
Dr Zeng gave an invited talk at Pittcon 2018.
February 26, 2018
Dr Zeng gave an invited talk at the 2018 KINBRE meeting titled "Enabling Micro/NanoSystems for Precision Cancer Medicine".
January 13, 2018
Peng gave an oral presentation at 2017 MicroTAS conference! His paper was among the top 99 selected from over 1000 submissions. Congratulations!
October 24, 2017
Xin presented a poster at 2017 MicroTAS conference! well done!
October 24, 2017
Peng, Yang and Xin presented talks at the 2017 ACS Midwest Regional Meeting.
October 19, 2017
Divya and Hongmei presented posters at the 2017 ACS Midwest Regional Meeting.
October 19, 2017
Yong chaired the analytical chemistry section at the 2017 Midwest Regional Meeting
October 19, 2017
Yong presented a keynote talk and and chaired a session at the 2017 Chinese MicroTAS, Shenyang, China!
September 24, 2017
Yang Yang received the Kuwana Travel Award to attend and present a poster at the ACS Fall Meeting 2017 in Washongton DC. Congratulations, Yang!
June 29, 2017
Dr Zeng was named as Docking Faculty Scholar by KU. Thanks to all the group members for their hard work!
June 29, 2017
Researchers see exosomes as way to make ‘personalized medicine’ easier and more precise
June 28, 2017
Dr Zeng was invited to present at NIH Strategic Workshop “Extracellular RNA Transport”
June 27, 2017
Our group is featured in KUCC Newsletter: Yong Zeng among KU Cancer Center researchers awarded $1.2M grant from NCI
May 26, 2017
We received the second NIH grant in 2017! This $1.2M R33 award will support clinical development of our exosome technology with our KUMC collaborators. Congratulations to all!
May 12, 2017
Xin passed his comprehensive exam. Congratulations!
May 10, 2017
Dr. Xiaoni Fang joined us as a postdoc from UC Riverside. Welcome, Xiaoni!
May 5, 2017
Nick Shroeder joined us as an undergrad researcher. Welcome, Nick!
May 1, 2017
Yong presented a seminar in the chemistry department, University of Washington, Seattle..
April 10, 2017
Yong chaired a symposium "Recent innovations in nanosensing" and presented a talk at the 2017 ACS Spring Meeting.
April 5, 2017
Yong gave a seminar in the Chemistry department, Indiana University, entitled "Enabling Bioanalytical Microfluidics for Precision Cancer Diagnositics"
March 21, 2017
Our group received a R21 grant from NIH/NIBIB for a collaborative project with Prof Doyle at MIT. Congratulations to all!
February 28, 2017
Dr.Cao awarded a NIH K-INBRE postdoc fellowship. Congratulations, Hongmei!
February 23, 2017
Alex received two awards from KU and KINBRE for undergraduate research. Congratulations!
February 2, 2017
Dr. Zeng presented a talk at the 2017 NIH/NCI IMAT PI meeting.
December 2, 2016
Dr. Hongmei Cao joined us as a postdoc from Fudan University. Welcome!
October 1, 2016
Yong presented an invited seminar at the UMKC School of Pharmacy.
August 30, 2016
Our group is awarded a R21 grant by the NIH Common Fund and NCI to support our studies on high-throughput glycomics profiling for cancer diagnosis!
August 13, 2016
Yong presented a chemistry department seminar at the Chung Yuan Christian University (Taiwan).
August 2, 2016
Yong presented an invited talk at the The Knowledge Foundation’s 24th International Biodetection Technologies: Point-of-Care for Biodefense
June 29, 2016
Yong presented a poster at the NIH Common Fund Glycoscience Program annual PI meeting.
June 28, 2016
Xin awarded with the Cornelius McCollum Research Scholarship from the Chemistry Department. Congratulations, Xin!
May 20, 2016
Our invited review paper coauthors by Prof. He at KSU was accepted by Journal of Laboratory Automation!
May 4, 2016
Alex joined the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome on board, Alex!
April 14, 2016
Dr. Zeng spoke at the Circulating Biomarkers World Congress 2016 held in Boston.
March 22, 2016
Peng's paper on graphene and polydopamine nanocoating just accpeted by Lab on a Chip. Congratulations!
March 17, 2016
Dr. Zeng gave a seminar in the department of Chemistry at Oregon State University.
March 17, 2016
Yazhen's digital PCR paper was accepted by Analyst. Congratulations!
March 16, 2016
Peng gave a talk at the 2016 ACS National Meeting held in San Diego.
March 14, 2016
Prof Zeng chaired a symposium and presented an invited talk at the 2016 Pittcon conference
March 10, 2016
Prof Zeng gave a seminar in Department of Chemistry at Georgia Tech.
March 9, 2016
Mei joined us as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Mei!
February 14, 2016
Zheng's Lab Chip paper was selected to feature on the inside cover. Congratulations!
February 1, 2016
Prof Zeng gave a seminar in the Department of Bioengineering at UCLA.
January 29, 2016
Prof Zeng gave a seminar in the Chemistry Department of the University of California, Riverside
January 28, 2016
Prof Zeng presented an invited talk at the 2016 SLAS conference
January 26, 2016
Peng presented at the 2016 K-INBRE Meeting
January 15, 2016
Yuqin's paper on microfluidic glycomic profiling was accepted by Scientific Reports. Congratulations!
December 29, 2015
Peng's abstract accpeted as an oral at the 2016 ACS meeting in San Diego. Congratulations!
December 7, 2015
Zheng and Yang's paper on multiplexed exosome analysis has been accepted by Lab on a Chip. Congratulations to Zheng, Yang and our collaborator Dr. He from K-State!
November 20, 2015
Yazhen's dPCR work was presented as a poster at the 2015 MicroTAS conference held in South Korea.
October 28, 2015
Peng presented a poster at the 2015 MicroTAS conference held in South Korea.
October 26, 2015
Yong presented an invited talk at the NGS, SCA, Mass Spec: The Road to Diagnostics , San Diego
September 28, 2015
The TEDx video is alive on youtube. Check it out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT445s56Fhg
June 15, 2015
Yong presented a poster at Microfluidics Gordon Research Conference.
June 3, 2015
Nasir Merchant joins us as a visiting student from UC Berkeley for the summer. Welcome, Nasir!
May 18, 2015
Exciting news! Our group's proposal on exosome analysis has been selected for funding by the NIH COBRE Center for Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways (CMADP)!
May 14, 2015
Dr. Zhang awarded a NIH K-INBRE postdoc fellowship. Congratulations, Peng!
May 13, 2015
Exciting news! Our group received a Bridging grant from the Kansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (K-INBRE) funded by NIGMS.
May 13, 2015
Yong gave an invited seminar at Truman State University.
April 24, 2015
Yong spoke at TEDx Lawrence: Lab-on-a-Chip: Catching Molecular Messages Sent by Tumors
March 23, 2015
Yang Yang presented an oral talk at Pittcon 2015
March 11, 2015
Yong chaired a Pittcon symposium "Microfluidic Innovations to Advance Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways"
March 10, 2015
Yong presented an invited talk at Pittcon 2015
March 10, 2015
Yong gave an invited presentation at the University of Oklahoma Center for Bioanalysis Symposium 2015
February 20, 2015
Our "Lab on a chip" research highlighted in 2015 KU Chancellor's Report
February 13, 2015
Our exosome article is one of the top-scoring Altmetrics articles published in Lab on a Chip in the months Aug-Oct 2014
November 7, 2014
Prof Zeng presented an invited talk at the 4th International Conference on Microfluidic Chip and Micro/NanoScale Bioseparation Analysis, Wuhan, China
November 2, 2014
Yuqin presented a poster at The Silicon Prairie International Microfluidics Symposium (SPIMS), Lawrence, KS 2014
November 1, 2014
Prof. Zeng gave a talk at MicroTAS 2014 in San Antonio, TX.
October 28, 2014
Yuqin presented a poster at MicroTAS 2014 in San Antonio, TX.
October 27, 2014
Prof Zeng presented a talk at the 2014 Midwest Universities Analytical Chemistry Conference.
October 25, 2014
Prof. Zeng received a James W. and Carolyn L. Taylor Travel Award for the 2014 Midwest Universities Analytical Chemistry Conference.
October 25, 2014
Yang Yang's oral presentation accepted by Pittcon 2015! Congratulations, Yang!
October 13, 2014
Dr. Xinghu Ji from Wuhan University joined us as a visiting scholar. Welcome!
October 12, 2014
KU Honors Program Students Morgan Linder and Carrie Deitz joined the group for undergraduate research. Welcome, Morgan and Carrie!
October 10, 2014
New 'lab-on-a-chip' could revolutionize early diagnosis of cancer
October 7, 2014
Dr. Peng Zhang joined the group as a postdoc from Fudan University. Welcome, Peng!
September 22, 2014
Prof Zeng gave an invited talk at the Lab-on-a-Chip, Microfluidics & Microarray World Congress in San Diego
September 18, 2014
Prof Zeng appointed to a Full Member of KU Cancer Center
September 6, 2014
Exciting news! Our group received a $640K grant from NIH/NCI for microfluidic exosome analysis.
August 15, 2014
Yong chaired and presented at the symposium "Bioanalytical microfluidics: Applications to Quantitative Biology” at the 248th ACS National Meeting in San Francisco
August 12, 2014
The exosome paper with our KUMC collaborators accepted by Lab on a Chip. Congratulations to all the authors !
July 18, 2014
Our group received J.R. & Inez Jay Award through HBC!
July 8, 2014
Yong to give oral presentation at microTAS 2014!
July 8, 2014
Yuqin will give poster presentation at microTAS 2014, Congratulations!
July 8, 2014
A poster presentation will be given at microTAS 2014 by our collaborator, Dr. He from KSU Olathe! Congratulations!
July 8, 2014
All three abstracts from our group and collaborators accepted by the microTAS 2014!
July 7, 2014
Yong won the RSC Analytical Methods Best Poster Award at the Bioanalytical Sensors Gordon Research Conference!
June 28, 2014
Yong published a chapter, entitled "Droplet-Based Digital Microfluidics for Single-Cell Genetic Analysis”, in the book "Microfluidics and Nanotechnology: Biosensing to the Single Molecule Limit"
June 10, 2014
Kris recognized by the prestigous 2014 American Institute of Chemists Award. Congratulations!
May 15, 2014
Yong presented an invited seminar at Kansas State University
March 13, 2014
Yong chaired a symposium and presented at Pittcon 2014, Chicago
March 2, 2014
Yong presented an invited seminar at Wichita State University
February 12, 2014
Dr Xingfu Zhao joined the group as a postdoc, Welcome!
January 26, 2014
Yong gave a talk at KU Cancer Center
January 21, 2014
Yang Yang joined the group as a graduate student, Welcome!
December 16, 2013
Yong co-chaired the session "Microfluidics: Bioanalytical Applications" at 2013 AICHE annual meeting
November 4, 2013
Yong presented at 2013 MicroTAS, Germany
October 29, 2013
Dr. Xu joined the group as visiting professor. Welcome!
October 4, 2013
Our ultrasensitive uELISA paper has been selected as a Lab on a Chip HOT Article (Top 10%)
September 17, 2013
Single-molecule PCR work featured in the news story on GenomeWeb.com
August 16, 2013
Prof. Wang joined us as a visiting professor from Wuhan, China. Welcome!
August 5, 2013
Yiqiu presents his REU poster at the KU summer undergraduate research program.
July 26, 2013
Microfluidic ELISA paper accepted by Lab on a Chip! Congrats to Tanyu, Mohan and Dokota!
July 24, 2013
Paper accepted by the MicroTAS 2013 conference!
July 9, 2013
Dr. Yuqin Shang joined us as a postdoc. Welcome, Yuqin!
July 2, 2013
Paper accepted by Nucleic Acids Research
June 24, 2013
Kris Southard joined us as undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Kris!
June 15, 2013
Dr. Zeng presented at the GRC microfluidics conference
June 8, 2013
Mohan presents at KU Undergraduate Reseach Symposium
April 27, 2013
Dr. Zeng awarded NIH COBRE Pilot Project Grant
April 26, 2013
Dr. Zeng presented at the NIH Annual Single Cell Analysis Investigation Meeting
April 15, 2013
Yiqiu received Seo award for summer undergraduate research. Congratulations!
April 10, 2013
Dr. Zeng presented at KU Molecular Biosciences
March 25, 2013
Review paper accepted by Anal Bioanal Chem
March 23, 2013
Dr. Zeng presented at Pittcon 2013
March 20, 2013
Dr. Zeng chaired a symposium at Pittcon 2013
March 18, 2013
Dr. Zeng presented at KU Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Seminar
March 12, 2013
Updated website on line
January 23, 2013
First Paper Accepted
October 26, 2012
Tanyu Presents at Pittcon
October 16, 2012
Dr. Zeng Presents at ACS Midwest
October 10, 2012
Dr. Zeng Presents at SCIX
September 21, 2012
Undergraduates Join Group
September 5, 2012
Postdoc Joins Group
August 14, 2012
Dr. Zeng Presents at Gordon
June 13, 2012
Lab Renovation Complete
April 18, 2012
Lab Renovation Begins
September 1, 2011
Our work on exosome nanochip featured in the JAMA Network! Congrats to all authors! https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2733185