Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science, College of Engineering, UNC Charlotte
Selected Publications
Zhao Nan, Alexander F. Pessell, Tracy D. Chung, and Peter C. Searson, "Brain vascular basement membrane: Comparison of human and mouse brain at the transcriptomic and proteomic levels.", Matrix Biology, 2025.
Zhao Nan, Alexander F. Pessell, Ninghao Zhu, and Peter Searson, "Tissue‐engineered microvessels: A review of current engineering strategies and applications." Advanced Healthcare Materials, 13.21 (2024): 2303419.
Zhao Nan, Sarah Kulkarni, Sophia Zhang, Raleigh M. Linville, Tracy D. Chung, Zhaobin Guo, John J. Jamieson, Danielle Norman, Lily Liang, Alexander F. Pessell, and Peter Searson, " Modeling human brain angiogenesis with tissue-engineered venules." Angiogenesis 26.2 (2023): 203-216.
Zhao Nan, Zhaobin Guo, Sarah Kulkarni, Danielle Norman, Sophia Zhang, Tracy D. Chung, Renée F. Nerenberg, Raleigh M. Linville, and Peter Searson, "Engineering the blood-brain barrier model at near-capillary scale with a double-templating technique." Advanced Functional Materials 32.30 (2022): 2110289..
Zhao Nan, James Coyne, Lidya Abune, Peng Shi, Xiaojun Lance Lian, Ge Zhang, and Yong Wang, "Exogenous signaling molecules released from aptamer-functionalized hydrogels promote the survival of mesenchymal stem cell spheroids." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12.22 (2020): 24599-24610.
Shi Peng*, Zhao Nan*, James Coyne, and Yong Wang. "DNA-templated synthesis of biomimetic cell wall for nanoencapsulation and protection of mammalian cells." Nature Communications 10.1 (2019): 2223. *, equal contribution
Yi Dong, Blake A Johnson, Linhao Ruan, Maged Zeineldin, Tianhao Bi, Albert Z Liu, Sumana Raychaudhuri, Ian Chiu, Jin Zhu, Barbara Smith, Zhao Nan, Peter Searson, Shigeki Watanabe, Mark Donowitz, Tatianna C Larman, Rong Li, "Disruption of epithelium integrity by inflammation-associated fibroblasts through prostaglandin signaling." Science Advances 10.14 (2024):eadj7666.
Guo, Zhaobin, Zhao Nan, Tracy D. Chung, Anjan Singh, Ikshu Pandey, Linus Wang, Xinyue Gu et al. "Dynamics of Borrelia Burgdorferi Invasion and Intravasation in a Tissue Engineered Dermal Microvessel Model." Advanced Science 9.35 (2022): 2204395.