Analysis of nano -biological effects, radiochemistry. For example, nano -biological effects and safety; nano -drug treatment and diagnosis of low toxic tumors; molecular dynamics design and surface chemical modification of low toxic nanomaterials; nuclear energy nano -technology.

2018.10-now Director-General, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China 

2011-2018  Deputy Director-General, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China

2008- now  Director, Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Lab for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety

2005-2008  Executive Dean, College of Chemistry, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (previously GUCAS)

2001-now   Professor, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

1999-2001  JSPS Fellow, Tokyo Metropolitan University & RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan

1996-1999  PhD in Chemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan

1993-1996  M.D in Chemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan

1981-1985  MSc in Chemistry, Sichuan University, China

1.Li, S. P., Jiang, Q., Liu, S. L., Zhang, Y. L., Tian, Y. H., Song, C., Wang, J., Zou, Y. G., Anderson, J. G., Han, J. Y., Chang, Y., Liu, Y., Zhang, C., Chen, L., Zhou, G. B., Nie, G. J., Yan, H., Ding, B. Q., Zhao, Y. L., A DNA Nanorobot Functions as A Cancer Therapeutic in Response to A Molecular Trigger in vivo. Nature Biotechnology, 2018, 36(3), 258-264.

2.Wang, L. M., Yan, L., Liu, J., Chen, C. Y., Zhao, Y. L., Quantification of Nanomaterial/ Nanomedicine Trafficking in vivo. Analytical Chemistry, 2018, 90(1), 589-614.

3.Han, X. X., Li, Y. Y , Xu, Y., Zhao, X., Zhang, Y. L., Yang, X., Wang, Y. W., Zhao, R. F., Anderson, G. J., Zhao, Y. L., Nie, G. J., Reversal of Pancreatic Desmoplasia by Re-educating Stellate Cells with A Tumour Microenvironment-activated Nanosystem, Nature Communications, 2018, 9(1), 3390.

4.Ji, T. J., Zhao, Y., Ding, Y. P., Wang, J., Zhao, R. F., Lang, J. Y., Qin, H., Liu, X. M., Shi, J., Tao, N., Qin, Z. H., Nie, G. J., Zhao, Y. L., Transformable Peptide Nanocarriers for Expeditious Drug Release and Effective Cancer Therapy via Cancer-Associated Fibroblast Activation, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2016, 55(3), 1050-1055.

5.Liu, Y., Chen, C., Qian, P., Lu, X., Sun, B., Zhang, X., Wang, L., Gao, X., Li, H., Chen, Z., Tang, J., Zhang, W., Dong, J., Bai, R., Wu, Q., Liu, S., Zhan, H., Zhao, F., Wicha, Max S., Zhu, T., Zhao, Y. L., Gd-metallofullerenol Nanomaterial as Non-toxic Breast Cancer Stem Cell Specific Inhibitor, Nature Communications, 2015, 6, 5988.

6.Zhu, M. T., Nie, G. J., Meng, H., Xia, T., Nel, A., Zhao, Y. L., Physicochemical Properties Determine Nanomaterial Cellular uptake, Transport and Fate, Accounts of Chemical Research, 2013, 46(3), 622-631.

7.Chen, C. Y.; Li, Y. F, Qu, Y, Chai, Z. F, Zhao, Y. L., Advanced Nuclear Analytical and Related Techniques for the Growing Challenges in Nanotoxicology. Chemical Society Reviews, 2013, 42, 8266-8303.

8.Kang, S., Zhou, G.Q., Yang, P., Liu, Y., Sun, B.Y., Huynh, T., Meng, H., Zhao, L.N, Xing, G.M., Chen, C.Y., Zhao, Y.L., Zhou, R.H., Molecular Mechanism of Pancreatic Tumor Metastasis Inhibition by Gd@C82(OH)22 and its Implication for De Novo Design of Nanomedicine. PNAS, 2012, 109(38), 15431-15436.

9.Ge, C. C., Du, J. F., Zhao, L. N., Wang, L. M., Liu, Y., Li, D. H., Yang, Y. L., Zhou, R. H, Zhao, Y. L., Chai, Z. F., Chen, C. Y., Binding of Blood Proteins to Carbon Nanotubes Reduces Cytotoxicity, PNAS, 2011, 108(41), 16968-16973.

10.Sun, C., Yang, H., Yuan, Y., Tian, X., Wang, L. M., Guo, Y., Xu, L., Lei, J. L., Gao, N., Anderson, G. J., Liang, X. J., Chen, C. Y., Zhao, Y. L., Nie, G. J., Controlling Assembly of Paired Gold Clusters within Apoferritin Nanoreactor for in vivo Kidney Targeting and Biomedical Imaging, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011,133 (22), 8617-8624.