Professor, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University

2019-Present: P.I. ChemBIC, Nanjing University

2014-Present: Professor, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University

2009-2014, Postdoc, School of Medicine, Stanford University

2004-2009: Ph.D., Shanghai Institute of Meteria Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences 

2000-2004: BS, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University

Brief biography

Dr. Ye received B. S. in Chemistry from Nanjing University in 2004. Received Ph.D. in Drug Design and Medicinal Chemistry with Prof. Hualiang Jiang and Prof. Hong Liu from SIMM (CAS) in 2009, with dissertation of “Drug Design, Synthesis and Pharmacological Research of Privileged Structures”. Post-doctoral training in Prof. Jianghong Rao lab in Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford University (MIPS) from 2009 to 2014, where he developed multimodality molecular imaging probes for non-invasive detection of protease activity in vivo . 

He moved back to China and joined in Nanjing University to start independent research in Oct 2014. Research interests focus on the development of activatable multimodality molecular probes for non-invasive in vivo imaging of biomolecules and treatment of diseases. Published more than 120 SCI papers, including Nat. Nanotechnol., Nat. Chem., Nat. Biomed. Eng., Nat. Commun., JACS., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Soc. Rev., and Anal. Chem. Applied >20 patents. His work has been highlighted as ACS Editor Choice, highlighted lecture, highly cited paper, and so on. He has won honors and awards including IAAM Scientist Medal (2016), Young investigator travel award (2013) and Excellent graduate student of CAS (2009). He is currently serving as the Excutive Editor of Chemical & Biomedical Imaging, an ACS partner journal  published in collaboration with Nanjing University.

Teaching

• Nano-Analytical Chemistry 《纳米分析化学》,for graduate students

• Chemical Biology 《化学生物学导论》with Prof. Huang Wang, for both graduate and undergraduate students

• Instrumental Analysis Experiment 《仪器分析实验》, for undergraduate students and Ph.D. student

• 《化学生物学综合实验》, for undergraduate students