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Wei Tao, Ph.D.

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Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USAPostdoc02/2018Biomaterials
Tsinghua University, ChinaPh.D.06/2015Biology
Huazhong University of Science & Technology, ChinaB.S.06/2011Biomedical Engineering
awards and honors
2020 - 2022
Harvard & Brigham Khoury Innovation Award (PI)
2020
Top 10 Outstanding Reviewers in 2019, Materials Horizons (IF 2019 = 14.356)
2020
Featured Investigator at Harvard & Brigham Anaesthesia Department
2020 - 2022
Harvard & Brigham Stepping Strong Breakthrough Innovator Award (Co-PI)
2020
Editorial Board Members, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
2019 - 2022
Harvard & Brigham Center for Nanomedicine Research Fund (PI)
2019 - 2021
American Heart Association (AHA) Collaborative Sciences Award (Co-PI)
2019 - 2020
Harvard & Brigham Anaesthesia Department Basic Science Seed Grant (PI)
2019
Editorial Board Members, Frontiers in Pharmacology
2018 - 2020
US METAvivor Early Career Investigator Award (PI)
2015
Tsinghua-“Lin Feng” Instructor Award
2015
Tsinghua College Academic Rookie Award
2014
National Schcolarship for Graduate Student
2014
13th World Pharma Congress Student Fellowship
2013
Tsinghua First Scholarship for Research and Innovation
2013
Tsinghua Visiting Doctoral Students Foundation Scholarship (Harvard University)
2012
National Scholarship for Graduate Student
2011
Huazhong University of Science and Technology Outstanding Graduate
2010
Hong Kong Qiu Shi Science and Technologies Foundation Outstanding Student Award

Overview
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Dr. Wei Tao received his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science & Technology (2011), and Ph.D. in Biology from Tsinghua University (2015). He held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) from 2016 to 2018. Subsequently, he was promoted to be an Instructor (Junior Faculty) at HMS in March 2018. In January 2020, his promotion to Assistant Professor gained approval from the HMS Chairs.

He has so far published over 30 peer-reviewed first/corresponding author papers in prestigious journals such as Science Translational Medicine (2), Nature Biomedical Engineering (1), Matter (Cell Press) (2), Nature Communications (2), Chemical Society Reviews (2), Advanced Materials (2), Angewandte Chemie (3), Advanced Science (1), ACS Nano (3), Nano Letters (2), etc.. He is an active reviewer for numerous journals. He is also a member of the Academy at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Tao currently serves as the Principal Investigator (PI) on multiple awards/grants including the U.S. METAvivor Early Career Investigator Award, Harvard Anaesthesia Department Basic Scientist Grant, Khoury Innovation Award, Center for Nanomedicine Research Fund, Stepping Strong Breakthrough Innovator Award (Co-PI), and American Heart Association (AHA) Collaborative Sciences Award (Co-PI).

Dr. Tao's primary research interest is in the design and synthesis of functional biomaterials, revealing nano-bio interactions (mechanism studies), and exploring their different biomedical applications including RNA therapeutics, cancer theranostics, wound healing, cardiovascular disease, bone regeneration, diabetes treatment and so on. His research thrusts include fundamental materials innovation as well as their various applications in translational medicine (not limited to the areas mentioned above). He is willing to have potential collaborators to expand the application fields of these materials.
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  1. Tang Z, Kong N, Zhang X, Liu Y, Hu P, Mou S, Liljeström P, Shi J, Tan W, Kim JS, Cao Y, Langer R, Leong KW, Farokhzad OC, Tao W. A materials-science perspective on tackling COVID-19. Nat Rev Mater. 2020 Oct 14; 1-14. PMID: 33078077.
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  2. Zhou Y, Zhu F, Liu Y, Zheng M, Wang Y, Zhang D, Anraku Y, Zou Y, Li J, Wu H, Pang X, Tao W, Shimoni O, Bush AI, Xue X, Shi B. Blood-brain barrier-penetrating siRNA nanomedicine for Alzheimer's disease therapy. Sci Adv. 2020 Oct; 6(41). PMID: 33036977.
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  3. Xiao Y, Tang Z, Wang J, Liu C, Kong N, Farokhzad OC, Tao W. Oral Insulin Delivery Platforms: Strategies To Address the Biological Barriers. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2020 Jul 23. PMID: 32705745.
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  4. Tao W, Yurdagul A, Kong N, Li W, Wang X, Doran AC, Feng C, Wang J, Islam MA, Farokhzad OC, Tabas I, Shi J. siRNA nanoparticles targeting CaMKII? in lesional macrophages improve atherosclerotic plaque stability in mice. Sci Transl Med. 2020 Jul 22; 12(553). PMID: 32718990.
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  5. Feng C, Ouyang J, Tang Z, Kong N, Liu Y, Fu L, Ji X, Xie T, Farokhzad OC, Tao W. Germanene-based Theranostic Materials for Surgical Adjuvant Treatment: Inhibiting Tumor Recurrence and Wound Infection. Matter (Cell Press). 2020; 3(1):127-144. View Publication.
  6. Hu K, Xie L, Zhang Y, Hanyu M, Yang Z, Nagatsu K, Suzuki H, Ouyang J, Ji X, Wei J, Xu H, Farokhzad OC, Liang SH, Wang L, Tao W, Zhang MR. Marriage of black phosphorus and Cu2+ as effective photothermal agents for PET-guided combination cancer therapy. Nat Commun. 2020 06 08; 11(1):2778. PMID: 32513979.
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  7. Kong N, Ji X, Wang J, Sun X, Chen G, Fan T, Liang W, Zhang H, Xie A, Farokhzad OC, Tao W. ROS-Mediated Selective Killing Effect of Black Phosphorus: Mechanistic Understanding and Its Guidance for Safe Biomedical Applications. . 2020 05 13; 20(5):3943-3955. PMID: 32243175.
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  8. Tang Z, Kong N, Ouyang J, Feng C, Kim NY, Ji X, Wang C, Farokhzad OC, Zhang H, Tao W. Phosphorus Science oriented Design and Synthesis of Multifunctional Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications. Matter (Cell Press). 2020; 2(2):297-322. View Publication.
  9. Kong N, Tao W, Ling X, Wang J, Xiao Y, Shi S, Ji X, Shajii A, Gan ST, Kim NY, Duda DG, Xie T, Farokhzad OC, Shi J. Synthetic mRNA nanoparticle-mediated restoration of p53 tumor suppressor sensitizes p53-deficient cancers to mTOR inhibition. Sci Transl Med. 2019 12 18; 11(523). PMID: 31852795.
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  10. Ji X, Kang Y, Ouyang J, Chen Y, Artzi D, Zeng X, Xiao Y, Feng C, Qi B, Kim NY, Saw PE, Kong N, Farokhzad OC, Tao W. Synthesis of Ultrathin Biotite Nanosheets as an Intelligent Theranostic Platform for Combination Cancer Therapy. Adv Sci (Weinh). 2019 Oct 02; 6(19):1901211. PMID: 31592423.
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  11. Ouyang J, Feng C, Ji X, Li L, Gutti HK, Kim NY, Artzi D, Xie A, Kong N, Liu YN, Tearney GJ, Sui X, Tao W, Farokhzad OC. 2D Monoelemental Germanene Quantum Dots: Synthesis as Robust Photothermal Agents for Photonic Cancer Nanomedicine. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2019 09 16; 58(38):13405-13410. PMID: 31365775.
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  12. Tao W, Kong N, Ji X, Zhang Y, Sharma A, Ouyang J, Qi B, Wang J, Xie N, Kang C, Zhang H, Farokhzad OC, Kim JS. Emerging two-dimensional monoelemental materials (Xenes) for biomedical applications. Chem Soc Rev. 2019 Jun 04; 48(11):2891-2912. PMID: 31120049.
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  13. Tao W, Wang J, Parak WJ, Farokhzad OC, Shi J. Nanobuffering of pH-Responsive Polymers: A Known but Sometimes Overlooked Phenomenon and Its Biological Applications. ACS Nano. 2019 05 28; 13(5):4876-4882. PMID: 30985108.
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  14. Ling X, Tu J, Wang J, Shajii A, Kong N, Feng C, Zhang Y, Yu M, Xie T, Bharwani Z, Aljaeid BM, Shi B, Tao W, Farokhzad OC. Glutathione-Responsive Prodrug Nanoparticles for Effective Drug Delivery and Cancer Therapy. ACS Nano. 2019 01 22; 13(1):357-370. PMID: 30485068.
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  15. Islam MA, Xu Y, Tao W, Ubellacker JM, Lim M, Aum D, Lee GY, Zhou K, Zope H, Yu M, Cao W, Oswald JT, Dinarvand M, Mahmoudi M, Langer R, Kantoff PW, Farokhzad OC, Zetter BR, Shi J. Restoration of tumour-growth suppression in vivo via systemic nanoparticle-mediated delivery of PTEN mRNA. Nat Biomed Eng. 2018 11; 2(11):850-864. PMID: 31015614.
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  16. Tao W, Ji X, Zhu X, Li L, Wang J, Zhang Y, Saw PE, Li W, Kong N, Islam MA, Gan T, Zeng X, Zhang H, Mahmoudi M, Tearney GJ, Farokhzad OC. Two-Dimensional Antimonene-Based Photonic Nanomedicine for Cancer Theranostics. . 2018 Sep; 30(38):e1802061. PMID: 30043416.
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  17. Rosenblum D, Joshi N, Tao W, Karp JM, Peer D. Progress and challenges towards targeted delivery of cancer therapeutics. Nat Commun. 2018 04 12; 9(1):1410. PMID: 29650952.
    Citations: 11     Fields:    Translation:Humans
  18. Zhu X, Ji X, Kong N, Chen Y, Mahmoudi M, Xu X, Ding L, Tao W, Cai T, Li Y, Gan T, Barrett A, Bharwani Z, Chen H, Farokhzad OC. Intracellular Mechanistic Understanding of 2D MoS2 Nanosheets for Anti-Exocytosis-Enhanced Synergistic Cancer Therapy. ACS Nano. 2018 03 27; 12(3):2922-2938. PMID: 29406760.
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  19. Ding L, Zhu X, Wang Y, Shi B, Ling X, Chen H, Nan W, Barrett A, Guo Z, Tao W, Wu J, Shi X. Intracellular Fate of Nanoparticles with Polydopamine Surface Engineering and a Novel Strategy for Exocytosis-Inhibiting, Lysosome Impairment-Based Cancer Therapy. . 2017 11 08; 17(11):6790-6801. PMID: 29058908.
    Citations: 8     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
  20. Tao W, Ji X, Xu X, Islam MA, Li Z, Chen S, Saw PE, Zhang H, Bharwani Z, Guo Z, Shi J, Farokhzad OC. Antimonene Quantum Dots: Synthesis and Application as Near-Infrared Photothermal Agents for Effective Cancer Therapy. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2017 09 18; 56(39):11896-11900. PMID: 28640986.
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  21. Tao W, Zhu X, Yu X, Zeng X, Xiao Q, Zhang X, Ji X, Wang X, Shi J, Zhang H, Mei L. Black Phosphorus Nanosheets as a Robust Delivery Platform for Cancer Theranostics. . 2017 Jan; 29(1). PMID: 27797119.
    Citations: 27     Fields:    Translation:Humans
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