北京大学国际癌症研究院、北京大学 - 云南白药国际医学研究中心、北京大学医学技术研究院、北京大学跨学部生物医学工程系研究员、博士生导师。主要从事生物材料与药物递送研究,在国际上率先提出了蛋白质 - 高分子精准偶联的概念,发展了定点原位聚合、类弹性蛋白多肽融合等新型蛋白质 - 高分子偶联技术,发明了仿生智能型蛋白质 - 高分子偶联物、抗体 - 高分子 - 药物偶联物、蛋白质 - 药物偶联物等新型生物偶联物,发现了乏氧触发氧化胺高分子生物还原、类弹性蛋白多肽嵌合体靶向降解蛋白等新现象,并揭示了其分子机制,为新型大分子药物和生物材料的设计、研发和临床转化提供了新思路。

PNAS JACS Angew AM 等上发表了近 60 SCI 论文。已有 5 项国内外发明专利转让于美国公司 Gateway Biotech, Inc. 和中山华梓生物科技有限公司,其中治疗恶性脑瘤的温敏干扰素即将申报临床一期。获 Bayer Investigator Award Janssen Investigator Award 等奖励。主持或参与了 6 项国自然重大、重点和面上等科研项目,并任国自然、科技部 “十四五”及国家中长期科技发展战略规划编写组专家。

1. Sanke Zhang, Yuanzi Sun, Longshuai Zhang, Fan Zhang, Weiping Gao *. Thermoresponsive polypeptide fused L-asparaginase with mitigated immunogenicity and enhanced efficacy in treating hematologic malignancies. Adv. Sci. 2023 , 2300469.

2. Fei Duan, Wei Jin, Tong Zhang, Yuanzi Sun, Xuliang Deng* Weiping Gao* , . Thermo-pH-sensitive polymer conjugated glucose oxidase for tumour-selective starvation-oxidation-immune therapy. Adv. Mater. 2023 , adma.202209765

3. Longshuai Zhang, Jiawei Sun, Wenchao Huang, Sanke Zhang, Xuliang Deng, Weiping Gao * . Hypoxia-triggered bioreduction of poly( N -oxide)-drug conjugates enhances tumour penetration and antitumour efficacy. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 1707−1713.

4. Tong Zhang, Wei An, Jiawei Sun, Fei Duan, Zeyu Shao, Fan Zhang, Ting Jiang * , Xuliang Deng*, Cyrille Boyer*, Weiping Gao* . N-Terminal Lysozyme Conjugation to a Cationic Polymer Enhances Antimicrobial Activity and Overcomes Antimicrobial Resistance. Nano Lett. 2022 , 22 , 8294 8303.

5. Like Gong, Zhaoying Yang, Fan Zhang, Weiping Gao* . Cytokine conjugates to elastin-like polypeptides. Adv. Drug Deliver. Rev. 2022 , 190 , 114541.

6. Xinyu Liu, Weiping Gao* . Precision conjugation: an emerging tool for generating protein polymer conjugates . Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021 , 60 , 11024-11035.

7. Ping Liang, Guihuai Wang, Xinyu Liu, Zhuoran Wang, Jing Wang, Weiping Gao * . Spatiotemporal combination of thermosensitive polypeptide fused interferon and temozolomide for post-surgical glioblastoma immunochemotherapy. Biomaterials 2021 , 264 , 120447.

8. Zhuoran Wang, Jianwen Guo, Jiawei Sun, Ping Liang, Yan Wei, Xuliang Deng, Weiping Gao *. Thermoresponsive and protease-cleavable interferon-polypeptide conjugates with spatiotemporally-programmed two-step release kinetics for tumor therapy. Adv. Sci. 2019 , 6 1900586 .

9. Xinyu Liu, Mengmeng Sun, Jiawei Sun, Jin Hu, Zhuoran Wang, Jianwen Guo, Weiping Gao * . Polymerization induced self-assembly of a site-specific interferon a -block copolymer conjugate into micelles with remarkably enhanced pharmacology. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 10435-10438.

10. Jin Hu, Guilin Wang, Xinyu Liu, Weiping Gao * . Enhancing pharmacokinetics, tumor accumulation and antitumor efficacy by elastin-like polypeptide fusion of interferon alpha. Adv. Mater. 2015 , 27 , 7320-7324.