2021/04-present: Professor, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) 2020/08-2021/01: Associate Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University 2017/08-2020/08: Assistant Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University 2016/10-2017/08: Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University 2014/03-2016/08: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital 2011/09-2014/03: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame

National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21904006) Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation (No. 2184103)

2-3 Master students and 1 Ph.D. students per year

1. Jingfang Zhang, Peng Zhao, Wenzhe Li, Ling Ye, Lele Li, Zhengping Li, Mengyuan Li*, “Near-Infrared Light-Activatable Spherical Nucleic Acids for Conditional Control of Protein Activity”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, e202117562. 2. Wenjing Liu, Yuanyu Huang, Zhengping Li, Lele Li, Yuliang Zhao, Mengyuan Li*, “Multivalent Engineering of Exosomes with Activatable Aptamer Probes for Specific Regulation and Monitoring of Cell Targeting”, Anal. Chem. 2022, 94, 3840−3848. 3. Qing Liu, Bo Wu, Mengyuan Li*, Yuanyu Huang*, and Lele Li*, “Heterostructures Made of Upconversion Nanoparticles and Metal–Organic Frameworks for Biomedical Applications”, Adv. Sci. 2022, 9, 2103911. 4. Muhua Zhao, Shan Huang, Huaisyuan Xie, Jiayu Wang, Xiaoli Zhao, Mengyuan Li*, Meiping Zhao*, “Construction of Specific and Reversible Nanoreceptors for Proteins via Sequential Surface-Imprinting Strategy”, Anal. Chem. 2020, 92, 10540−10547. 5. Jiantong Dong, Yu Jen Jan, Ju Cheng, Ryan Y. Zhang, Meng Meng, Matthew Smalley, Pin-Jung Chen, Xinghong Tang, Patrick Tseng, Lirong Bao, Tzu-Yang Huang, Dongjing Zhou, Yupin Liu, Xiaoshu Chai, Haibo Zhang, Anqi Zhou, Vatche G. Agopian, Edwin M. Posadas, Jing-Jong Shyue, Steven J. Jonas, Paul S. Weiss, Mengyuan Li*, Guangjuan Zheng*, Hsiao-hua Yu*, Meiping Zhao*, Hsian-Rong Tseng*, Yazhen Zhu*, “Covalent Chemistry on Nanostructured Substrates Enables Noninvasive Quantification of Gene Rearrangements in Circulating Tumor Cells”, Sci. Adv., 2019, 5, eaav9186 6. Mengyuan Li#, Congli Wang#, Zhenghan Di#, Hui Li, Jingfang Zhang, Wenting Xue, Meiping Zhao, Ke Zhang, Yuliang Zhao, Lele Li*, “Engineering Multifunctional DNA Hybrid Nanospheres Through Coordination-Driven Self-Assembly”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 1350−1354. 7. Mengyuan Li, Jian Zhao, Hongqian Chu, Yongsheng Mi, Zehao Zhou, Zhenghan Di, Meiping Zhao, Lele Li*, “Light-activated Nanoprobes for Biosensing and Imaging”, Adv. Mater. 2019, 31, 1804745. 8. Junqiu Zhai, Muhua Zhao, Xiangjian Cao, Mengyuan Li*, Meiping Zhao*, “Metal-Ion-Responsive Bionanocomposite for Selective and Reversible Enzyme Inhibition”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 16925−16928.

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