Professor
xgao@uw.edu
Phone: (206) 543-6562
Office: Foege N530M
Xiaohu Gao
Molecular engineering
Molecular imaging
Targeted drug delivery
Cancer research
Neuro engineering
BS, Chemistry, Nankai University, China, 1998
2010 Faculty innovator award, College of Engineering, University of Washington
2007 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
BIOEN 599: Grad Imaging 2: Optical Bio-Imaging
M.Y. Han, X.H. Gao, J. Su, and S.M. Nie, Quantum-dot-tagged microbeads for multiplexed optical coding of biomolecules, Nature Biotechnology 2001, 19, 631-635.
X.H. Gao, Y. Cui, R.M. Levenson, L.W.K. Chung, and S.M. Nie, In vivo cancer targeting and imaging with semiconductor quantum dots, Nature Biotechnology 2004, 22, 969-976.
Y.D. Jin and X.H. Gao, Plasmonic fluorescent quantum dots, Nature Nanotechnology. 2009, 4, 571-576
Y.D. Jin , C. Jia , S.W. Huang, M. O’Donnell and X.H. Gao, Multifunctional nanoparticles as coupled contrast agents, Nature Communications, 2010, 10.1038/ncomms1042.
Zrazhevskiy, X.H. Gao, Quantum dot imaging platform for single-cell molecular profiling, Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/ncomms2635, 2013.
Zrazhevskiy, L.D. True, and X.H. Gao, Multicolor multicycle molecular profiling (M3P) with quantum dots for single-cell analysis, Nature Protocols, 8, 1852-1869, 2013
Li, M.A. Baird, M.A. Davis, W. Tai, L.S. Zweifel, K.M. Adams Waldorf, M. Gale Jr, L. Rajagopal, R.H. Pierce, X.H. Gao Dramatic enhancement of the detection limits of bioassays via ultrafast deposition of polydopamine. Nature Biomedical Engineering 1, 0082 2017.