• Assistant Professor, Principal Investigator, Doctoral Advisor
• College of Future Technology, Peking University
  National Biomedical Imaging Center

• 个人简介

  Dr. Wu's research involves multiple disciplines, including synthetic biology, cellular immunotherapy, optogenetics, acoustic genetics, etc. The research results were published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, Science Advances, Nature Chemical Biology and other journals. She was assessed as the 2020 Siebel Scholar of the Year.
  Our research interests include the development of focused ultrasound systems, and the application of focused ultrasound based acoustic genetics in CAR T immunotherapy, CRISPR gene editing and other fields. At present, the laboratory is in the preparatory stage, and we sincerely welcome students and scholars of biomedical engineering and other related majors to join us.

• 获奖及荣誉

  Postdoctoral Travel Award, 2022 American Society for Biomedical Engineering Annual Meeting of Molecular Bioengineering
  Engelson Ph.D. Thesis Award, University of California, San Diego, USA, 2020
  Siebel Scholar Class of 2020

• 个人履历

  2023-present Assistant Professor, Peking University
  Assistant Project Scientist, University of California, San Diego, 2021-2023
  Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, San Diego, 2020-2021
  2014-2020 University of California, San Diego PhD (Bioengineering)
  2010-2014 Bachelor of Engineering (Biomedical Engineering), The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• 代表性论文及论著

  1. Wu Y†, Huang Z, Harrison R, Liu L, Zhu L, Situ Y, Wang Y†. Engineering advanced CAR T cells. APL Bioengineering. 6, 011502. 2022. †Co-corresponding authors. (Featured Article)
  2. Wu Y, Liu Y, Huang Z, Wang X, Jin Z, Li J, Limsakul P, Zhu L, Allen M, Pan Y, Bussell R, Jacobson A, Liu T, Chien S, Wang Y. Control of the activity of CAR-T cells within tumours via focused ultrasound. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 5, 1336–1347. 2021. (Cover Article)
  3. Huang Z*, Wu Y*, Allen ME, Pan Y, Kyriakakis P, Lu S, Chang YJ, Wang X, Chien S, & Wang Y. Engineering light-controllable CAR T cells for cancer immunotherapy. Science Advances. 6(8): eaay9209. 2020. *Co-first authors.
  4. Wu Y and Wang Y. Synthetic Biology: Protein Circuits Reprogram Cells. Nature Chemical Biology. 15(2):96-97. 2019.
  5. Wu Y, Zhang K, Seong J, Fan J, Chien S, Wang Y, Lu S. In-situ Coupling between Kinase Activities and Protein Dynamics within Single Focal Adhesions. Scientific Reports. 6: 29377. 2016.