Zhoulei

Dr. Zhou is an Associate Professor and Master’s Supervisor at China Pharmaceutical University. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from Hunan Normal University in 2012 and completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry at Fudan University. She later conducted postdoctoral research at Texas A&M University and Arizona State University. In 2022, Dr. Zhou joined China Pharmaceutical University, where her research focuses on the synthesis of near-infrared fluorescent probes and their application in biological multiplex detection. She is currently the principal investigator of two funded projects: one supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the other by the start-up fund. To date, she has published over 20 SCI papers, including in top journals such as Nature Communications, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., and Analytical Chemistry. Her work has been cited more than 3,000 times.

1. Zhang, P.⁺, Zhou, L.⁺, Wang, R., Zhou, X., Wan, Z., Wang, S.* Evanescent Scattering Imaging of Single Protein Binding Kinetics and DNA Conformation Changes. Nat. Commun., 2022, 13, 2298.（Equal contribution）(IF=12.121)

2. Zhou, L., Kurouski D.* Structural Characterization of Individual α-Synuclein Oligomers Formed at Different Stages of Protein Aggregation by Atomic Force Microscopy-Infrared Spectroscopy. Anal. Chem., 2020, 92, 10, 6806. (IF=6.785)

3. Zhou, L., Fan, Y., Wang, R., Li, X., Fan, L. and Zhang, F.* High-capacity upconversion wavelength and lifetime binary encoding for multiplexed biodetection. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 12824. (IF=12.959)

4. Zhou, L., Wang, R., Yao, C., Li, X., Wang, C., Zhang, X., Xu, C., Zeng, A., Zhao, D., Zhang, F.* Single-band upconversion nanoprobes for multiplexed simultaneous in situ molecular mapping of cancer biomarkers. Nat. Commun., 2015, 6: 6938. (IF=12.121)

5. Wang, R.*, Wang, Q., Zhou, L.* Triple-bond Raman probes: Expanding molecular imaging in the cell-silent region. Next Nanotechnology, 2023, 3:100022.

Near-infrared fluorescent probes and their application in biological multiplex detection

Second Prize in the 4th China Pharmaceutical University Teaching Innovation Competition

Zhou, L., Zhang F.*. Chapter 7. The applications of upconversion nanoparticles in bioassay. Springer, 2015. (Book)