User:Mark Cheng

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Mark Ming-Cheng Cheng,PhD

Center for Nanomedicine

Institute of Molecular Medicine

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

1825 Pressler St, Suite 537B

Houston TX 77030

Phone: 7135002468

Email; ming-cheng.cheng@uth.tmc.edu

Dr. Cheng joined Nanomedicine as Research Assistant Professor in 2006

Education
1995 BS Electrical Engineering, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

2003 PhD Electrical Engineering, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

2004-2005 postdoc Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH

Research interests
Nanobiotechnology, Lab-on-chip, Nanochannels, Drug Delivery Systenm

Publications
21.	Mark Ming-Cheng Cheng, Giovanni Cuda, Yuri L. Bunimovich, Marco Gaspari, James R. Heath, A. Jasper Nijdam, Chad A. Mirkin, Rosa Terracciano, Thomas G. Thundat, Mauro Ferrari ”Nanotechnologies for biomolecular detection and medical diagnostics” Curr Opin Chem Biol Vol 10 Iss 1 p11-16 2006

22.	A J Nijdam, MMC Cheng, and M. Ferrari” X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy depth profile of chemically modified porous silicon” Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B v24 no2 p852-854 2006

23.	M Gaspari, MMC Cheng, R Terracciano, X Liu, A. J. Nijdam, Edi Fabrizio, E. F. Petricoin, L. A. Liotta, G. Cuda, S Venuta, M Ferrari” Nanoporous surfaces as harvesting agents for mass spectrometric analysis of peptides in human plasma” Journal of Proteome Research 5(5) p1261-1266 (2006)

24.	Sharma S, AJ Nijdam, Sinha PM, Walczak RJ, Liu X, MMC Cheng, and M Ferrari” Controlled release microchip” Expert opinion on Drug Delivery 3(3) p379-394 (2006)

25.	Terracciano R, Gaspari M, Testa F, Pasqua L, Cuda G, Tagliaferri P, Cheng MMC, Petricoin EF, Liotta LA, Ferrari M, Venuta S, "Selective Binding and Enrichment for Low Molecular Weight Biomarker Molecules in Human Plasma after Exposure to Nanoporous Silica Particles", Proteomics vol6 (11) p3243-3250 (2006)

26.	D Geho, MMC Cheng, K. Killian, M. Lowenthal, S. Ross, K. Frogale, J. Nijdam, N. Lahar, D. Johann, P. Herrnann, F. Whiteley, M. Ferrari, E. Petricoin, L. Liotta “Fractionation of Serum Components using nanoporous substrates” Bioconjugate Chem. 17(3) p654-61 (2006)

27.	S. Pricl, M. Ferrone, M. Fermeglia, F. Amato, C. Cosentino, MMC Cheng, R. Walczak, and M. Ferrari “Multiscale modeling of protein transport in silicon membrane nanochannels: Part 1 Derivation of molecular parameters from computer simulation” Biomedical Microdevices 8 (4): 277-290 DEC (2006)

28.	F. Amato, C. Cosentino, S. Pricl, M. Ferrone, M. Fermeglia, MMC Cheng, R. Walczak, and M. Ferrari “Multiscale modeling of protein transport in silicon membrane nanochannels: Part 2 From molecular parameters to a predictive contunuum diffusion model” Biomedical Microdevices 8 (4): 291-298 DEC (2006)

29.	Lu CM, Xie YB, Yang Y, Cheng MMC, Koh C, Bai Y, and Lee J L “New valve and bonding designs for microfluidic biochips containing proteins “Analytical Chemistry 79 (3): 994-1001 FEB 1 (2007)

30.	Nijdam AJ, Cheng MMC, Geho DH, Fedele R, Herrmann P, Killian K, Espina V, Petricoin EF, Liotta LA, and Ferrari M ”Physicochemically modified silicon as a substrate for protein microarrays” Biomaterials 28 (3): 550-558 JAN (2007)

31.	Yang Y, Cheng MMC, Hu X, Liu D, Goyette R J, Lee LJ, and Ferrari M ”Low-pressure carbon dioxide enhanced polymer chain mobility below the bulk glass transition temperature” Macromolecules 40 (4): 1108-1111 FEB (2007)

32.	Huang WS, Tzeng KE, Cheng MC , Huang RS A silicon MEMS micro power generator for wearable micro devices  Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers 30 (1): 133-140 JAN (2007)

33.	Robertson FM, Mallery SR, Bergdall-Costell VK, MMC Cheng, Pei P, Prosperi JR, Ferrari M “Cyclooxygenase-2 directly induces MCF-7 breast tumor cells to develop into exponentially growing, highly angiogenic and regionally invasive human ductal carcinoma xenografts” ANTICANCER RESEARCH 27 (2): 719-727 MAR-APR (2007)

34.	Lu C, Cheng MMC, Benatar A, Lee LJ “Embossing of high-aspect-ratio-microstructures using sacrificial templates and fast surface heating” Polymer Engineering & Science 830-840 Volume 47, Issue 6, June (2007)

35.	Pope-Harman A, Cheng M MC, Robertson FM, Sakamoto J, Ferrari M “ Biomedical Nanotechnolgy for Cancer” The  Medical Clinics of North America 91 (5) 899 2007

36.	Ennio Tasciotti, Xuewu Liu, Rohan Bhavane, Kevin Plant, Ashley D. Leonard, B. Katherine Price, Mark Ming-Cheng Cheng, Paolo Decuzzi, James M. Tour, Fredika Robertson & Mauro Ferrari “Mesoporous silicon particles as a multistage delivery system for imaging and therapeutic applications” Nature Nanotehcnology Vol3 no3 p151-157 March (2008)

37.	Cheng M MC, Tasciotti E, Ferrari M “ Silicon as a Biomedical Material” IEEE A Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop, Hilton Head 2008

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