Hu Yang, Ph.D.
Qimonda Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Phone: (804) 828-5459
Fax: (804) 827-4454
Email: hyang2@vcu.edu
Website: wp.vcu.edu/hyang2
Address
Virginia Commonwealth University
School of Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
East Hall, Room E2242
401 West Main Street
P.O. Box 843067
Richmond, Virginia 23284-3067
Education
- B.E., chemical fiber/polymeric materials, Sichuan University, 1998
- Ph.D., chemical engineering, University of Akron, 2004
Honors
- Qimonda Professorship, 2010
- NSF CAREER Award, 2010
- Wallace Coulter Foundation Translational Research Award, 2009
Research topics
- Biomaterials
- Cancer research
- Dendrimer
- Drug delivery
- Gene therapy
- Nanoparticles
- Nanoscience and nanotechnology
- Smart polymeric materials and structures
- Tissue engineering
Classes taught
- Biomaterials
- Biotransport processes
Selected publications
1. Hu Yang, Puneet Tyagi, Rajendra S. Kadam, Christopher A. Holden, and Uday B. Kompella, Hybrid dendrimer gel/PLGA nanoparticle platform sustains drug delivery for one week and antiglaucoma effects for four days following one-time topical administration, ACS Nano, in press
2. Khushboo Sharma, Olga Y. Zolotarskaya, Kenneth J. Wynne, Hu Yang, PEG-armed hyperbranched polyoxetanes via one-pot polymerization: synthesis, characterization, and anti-cancer drug delivery, Journal of Bioactive and Compatible Polymers (2012), in press
3. Isaac Rodriguez, Parthasarathy Madurantakam, Jennifer McCool, Scott Sell, Hu Yang, Peter Moon, Gary L. Bowlin, Mineralization potential of electrospun PDO-hydroxyapatite-fibrinogen blended scaffolds, International Journal of Biomaterials (2012), volume 2012, 12 pages
4. Chaitali Ghosh, Nicola Marchi, Mohammed Hossain, Peter Rasmussen, Andreas V. Alexopoulos, Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez, Hu Yang, Damir Janigro, A pro-convulsive carbamazepine metabolite: quinolinic acid in drug resistant epileptic human brain, Neurobiology of Disease (2012), 46(3):692-700
5. Laura Biddlestone-Thorpe, Nicola Marchi, Kathy Guo, Chaitali Ghosh, Damir Janigro, Kristoffer Valerie, Hu Yang, Nanomaterial-mediated CNS delivery of diagnostic and therapeutic agents, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (2012), 64(7), 605-613
6. Christopher A. Holden*, Puneet Tyagi*, Ashish Thakur, Rajendra Kadam, Gajanan Jadhav, Uday B. Kompella, Hu Yang, Polyamidoamine dendrimer hydrogel for enhanced delivery of antiglaucoma drugs, Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, (* co-first author) (2012), 8(5), 776-783
7. Quan Yuan, Yao Fu, W. John Kao, Damir Janigro, Hu Yang, Transbuccal delivery of CNS therapeutic nanoparticles: Synthesis, characterization, and in vitro permeation studies, ACS Chemical Neuroscience (2011), 2(11), 676-683.