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Welcome to Xu lab! Postdoctoral Research Associate & Graduate Research Assistant positions are available for highly self-motivated persons who are interested in Biomaterials and Nanobiotechnology for cancer and CNS disease treatment. Please contact Dr. Xu (xup@sccp.sc.edu) for detailed information. News Congratulations to Jason! He receives Science Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) from South Carolina Honors College. (05/14/14) "Redox Potential Ultrasensitive Nanoparticle for Targeted Camptothecin Delivery to HER2-Positive Cancer Cells" by Remant and Bei is accepted for publication in Molecular Pharmaceutics. (04/29/14) Dr. Xu receives the ASPIRE-I (Advanced Support Programs for Innovative Research Excellence)award from the Office of the Vice President for Research of USC. (04/25/14) Congratulations to Bei! She receives SPARC (Support to Promote Advancement of Research and Creativity) Graduate Fellowship from the Office of the Vice President for Research of USC. (01/13/14) Our book chapter "Natural cationic polymers for gene delivery" is accepted for publication in the ebook Advances and Challenges in Delivery of Nucleic Acid Therapeutics by Future Science Group . (12/19/13) Congratulations to Huacheng! He receives SPARC (Support to Promote Advancement of Research and Creativity) Graduate Fellowship from the Office of the Vice President for Research of USC. (04/09/13) "Smart-bombing cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and more" University of South Carolina News (03/14/13) Congratulations to Dr. Xu! He receives the American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant (ACS-IRG) from The University of South Carolina South Carolina College of Pharmacy. (02/19/13) "A DNA prime-protein boost vaccination strategy targeting turkey coronavirus spike protein fragment containing neutralizing epitope against infectious challenge" is accepted for publication in Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology. (02/08/13) Congratulations to Dr. Xu! He was named as a USC Breakthrough Rising Star of 2013. (01/15/13) Congratulations to Benjamin! Our group has been awarded funding through the Magellan Scholar Program to support BENJAMIN BRUMMEL's undergradute research. (12/10/12) Our paper recently published in Molecular Pharmaceutics, (2012) 9 (9), 2719-2729, "pH and redox dual responsive nanoparticle for nuclear targeted drug delivery", was listed among the top 10 Most Read Articles published in this journal over one month period (10/29/12) "Droplet Sorting Based on the Number of Encapsulated Particles Using a Solenoid Valve" , a study at Virginia Tech that Huacheng and Peisheng participated in as co-authors, is accepted for publication in Lab on a Chip (10/15/12) "Multicompartment Intracellular Self-Expanding Nanogel for Targeted Delivery of Drug Cocktail" by Remant is accepted for publication in Advanced Materials (09/03/12) "pH and Redox Dual Responsive Nanoparticle for Nuclear Targeted Drug Delivery" by Remant and Bindu is accepted for publication in Molecular Pharmaceutics (08/09/12) Congratulations! Bei Cheng receives travel grant from The University of South Carolina in supporting her travel to the ACS 244th National Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 19-23, 2012, (06/18/12) Dr. Xu receives support from the ASPIRE-I (Advanced Support Programs for Innovative Research Excellence). (04/06/12) "Design of Serum Compatible Tetrary Complexes for Gene Delivery " is accepted for publication in Macromolecular Bioscience. (02/13/12) Dr. Xu receives the AACP New Investigator Award. (01/05/12) "Chemical Transfection of Cells in Picoliter Aqueous Droplets in Fluorocarbon Oil" is accepted for publication in Analytical Chemistry. (10/09/11) Dr. Xu chaired the Targeted Drug Delivery Systems and Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems sessions at the International Conference on Pharmaceutics & Novel Drug Delivery Systems 7-8 June, Las Vegas,USA. (06/11/11) Dr. Xu has been invited to be a member of the editorial board of the Journal of" Pharmaceutica Analytica Acta". (03/31/11) "Charge-reversal polyamidoamine dendrimer for cascade nuclear drug delivery" is accepted for publication in Nanomedicine. (10/07/10) "Zwitterionic chitosan derivatives for pH-sensitive stealth coating" is accepted for publication in Biomacromolecules. (7/26/10) Dr. Xu receives the Promising Investigator Research Award (PIRA) . (04/13/10) Personnel Julie Finnell from the Intergrated Biomedical Science PhD Program joins the lab for summer lab rotation. Welcome! Mitchell Mills from South Carolina Governor's School joins the lab (SPRI, Summer, 2014). Welcome! Yi Zhong from Zhejiang University, (Hangzhou, China) joins the lab (Summer exchange student, 2013). Welcome! Emily Hattaway from South Carolina Governor's School joins the lab (SPRI, Summer, 2013). Welcome! Jason C. Eckert from South Carolina Governor's School joins the lab (SPRI, Summer, 2012). Welcome! Jasmine Henderson from Morris College joins the lab as a DOE - EM student scholar (Summer, 2012). Welcome! Bei Cheng from Wuhan University, China, joins the lab on August 12th, 2011 as a graduate student. Welcome! Huacheng He from Zhejiang University, China, joins the lab on August 10th, 2011 as a graduate student. Welcome! Dr. Remant Bahadur K.C. from Chonbuk National University, Korea, joins the lab on December 1st, 2010 as a post-doctoral associate. Welcome aboard! Jittima Luckanagul (BMS) joins the lab for rotation training. Welcome! Contact information: Peisheng Xu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics Department of Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences South Carolina College of Pharmacy University of South Carolina 715 Sumter St, 609A Columbia, SC, 29208 Phone: 803-777-0075 Fax: 803-777-8356 xup@sccp.sc.edu