Academic Staff

Professor(PI)

CONGFEI XUProfessor(PI)
E-mail:
xucf@scut.edu.cn
Address:
C1-b409, Guangzhou International Campus
  • Awardee of the National Youth Talent Program
  • SCUT TCL Young Scholar

Website: https://www2.scut.edu.cn/nanomedicine/yjtdcy/list.htm

Education and Work Experience:

2025-present  South ChinaUniversity of Technology, Professor

2019-2024  South China Universityof Technology, Associate Professor

2017-2019  South China Universityof Technology, Postdoctoral Fellow

2012-2017  University of Scienceand Technology of China, Ph.D

Research Direction:

Drug delivery; Biomaterials; Geneediting; Gene therapy; Cancer immunotherapy


Research Achievement:

Specializes in nano-carrier constructionand bio-macromolecular drug delivery. With 50+ SCI-indexed             publications,including 30+ as corresponding/first author in top-tier journals such as CellBiomaterials,             Nature Communications, Science Bulletin, Advanced FunctionalMaterials, Nano Letters, and ACS Nano et             al.; have filed 14 invention patents,with 4 granted; have led NSFC Excellent Young Scholars Program,

NSFC General Program, Guangdong OutstandingYoung Scholars Program et al.; Awarded the 2021 Guangdong             Natural Science FirstPrize.


The Selected Publications:

1.Yue Wang#, Min Yang#, Bao-Yue Zhang, Gui Zhao,Shi-Kun Zhou, Zi-Dong Lu, Cong-FeiXu*, Jun Wang*, Leveraging     T-cell-specificfusogenicity of HIV for in vivo mRNA delivery to produce human CAR-T cells, Cell Biomaterials,     2025, 1, 100011.

2.Chaoran Chen, Yuxi Zhang, Ziyang Cao, Dongdong Li, Yueqiang Zhu, HoujinJing, Yan Li, Fangzheng Li,     Cong-FeiXu*,Xianzhu Yang*, JunWang*, Long-TermStorage Stable Vesicle-Like Nanoparticles of Lipid and Polymer for     siRNA andmRNA-Mediated Cancer Immunotherapy, AdvancedFunctional Materials, 2024, 34(44), 2406101.

3.Gui Zhao#, Yue Zhang#, Cong-Fei Xu*, Jun Wang*,In vivo production of CAR-T cells using virus-mimetic fusogenic     nanovesicles, Science Bulletin, 2024, 69(3), 354−366.

4.Yue Wang#, Shi-Kun Zhou#, YanWang, Zi-Dong Lu, Yue Zhang, Cong-Fei Xu*, Jun Wang*,Engineering tumor-specific     gene nanomedicine to recruit and activate T cellsfor enhanced immunotherapy, NatureCommunications, 2023, 14,     1993.

5.Yue Zhang#, Gui Zhao#, Jing Liu, Hou-Bing Zhang, Yue Wang, Ying-LiLuo, Zi-Dong Lu, Xiao-Jiao Du, Song Shen,     Jin-Zhi Du, Cong-Fei Xu*,Jun Wang*, Gene-activating nanomedicine for thetumor-oriented infiltration of T cells     to enhance immunotherapy against solidtumors, Nano Today, 2023, 52, 101992.

6.Yue Zhang#, Gui Zhao#, Yi-Fang Chen, Shi-KunZhou, Yue Wang, Yi-Qun Sun, Song Shen, Cong-Fei Xu*, Jun     Wang*,Engineering nano-clusteredmultivalent agonists to cross-link TNF receptors for cancer therapy, Aggregate,     2023, 4(6), e393.

7.Jia Shi#, Meng-Wen Huang#, Zi-Dong Lu, Xiao-Jiao Du,Song Shen, Cong-Fei Xu*, Jun Wang*, Delivery ofmRNA for     regulating functions of immune cells, Journal of ControlledRelease, 2022, 345, 494−511.

8.Yue Zhang#, Song Shen#, Gui Zhao, Cong-Fei Xu*, Hou-Bing Zhang, Ying-Li Luo,Zhi-Ting Cao, Jia Shi, Zhi-Bin     Zhao, Zhe-Xiong Lian, Jun Wang*, In situ repurposing of dendritic cells withCRISPR/Cas9-based nanomedicine to     induce transplant tolerance, Biomaterials,2019, 217, 119302.

9.Cong-Fei Xu#, Dong-Dong Li#, Zhi-Ting Cao, Meng-HuaXiong, Xian-Zhu Yang*, Jun Wang*, Facile hydrophobizationof     siRNA with anticancer drug for non-cationic nanocarrier-mediated systemicdelivery, Nano Letters, 2019,19,     2688−2693.

10. Cong-Fei Xu#, Zi-Dong Lu#, Ying-Li Luo, Yang Liu, Zhi-Ting Cao, Song Shen,Hong-Jun Li, Jing Liu, Kai-Ge     Chen, Zhi-Yao Chen, Xian-Zhu Yang, Zhen Gu, JunWang*, Targeting of NLRP3 inflammasome with gene editing for     theamelioration of inflammatory diseases, Nature Communications, 2018, 9, 4092.