41.  Mengmeng Zheng, Haixiao Huang, Mi Zhou, Yuqi Wang, Yan Zhang*, Deju Ye*, Hong-Yuan Chen. Cysteine-mediated intracellular building of luciferin to enhance probe retention and fluorescence turn-on (* Corresponding authors). Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 10506-10512.

40.  Hossein Nejadnik#, Deju Ye#, Olga, Lenkov, John Martin, Jessica Doing, Rostislav Castillo, Nikita Derugin, Barbara Sennino, Jianghong Rao, Heike Daldrup-Link. MR imaging of stem cell apoptosis in arthritic joints with a caspase-activatable contrast agent (# Co-first author). ACS Nano. 2015, 9, 1150-1160.

39.  Adam J. Shuhendler#, Deju Ye#, Kimberly D. Brewer#, Magdalena Bazalova-Carter, Kyung-Hyun Lee, Paul Kempen, K. Dane Wittrup, Edward E. Graves, Brian Rutt , Jianghong Rao (# Co-first authors).  Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Tumor Response to Therapy.  Sci. Rep. 2015, 5, 14759.

38.  Xu Zhang, Qian Ba, Zhanni Gu, Diliang Guo, Yu Zhou, Yungen Xu, Hui Wang*, Deju Ye*, Hong Liu*. Fluorescent Coumarin-Artemisinin Conjugates as Mitochondria-Targeting Theranostic Probes for Enhanced Anticancer Activities (* Corresponding authors). Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 17415-17421.