研究员，博士生导师。中山大学百人计划引进人才。主要研究方向是开发精准靶向裂解细胞膜的抗肿瘤及抗菌药物。在Nature Nanotechnology、Science Advances、PNAS等期刊发表论文。主持国家自然科学基金-青年科学基金项目和面上项目、广东省自然科学基金-杰出青年项目等。

1. Mingdong Liu^#, Liangqi Huang^#, Weinan Zhang^#, Xiaochuan Wang, Yuanyuan Geng, Yuhao Zhang, Li Wang, Wenbin Zhang, Yun-Jiao Zhang, Shiyan Xiao*, Yan Bao*, Menghua Xiong*, and Jun Wang*, A transistor-like pH-sensitive nanodetergent for selective cancer therapy, Nature Nanotechnology, 2022 May;17(5):541-551.（影响因子34.9，中科院SCI期刊大类分区：材料科学1区）ISSN: 1748-3387
2. Yangbin Liang^#, Yuhao Zhang^#, Yu Huang^#, Cheng Xu^#, Jingxian Chen, Xinshuang Zhang, Bingchuan Huang, Zhanhui Gan, Xuehui Dong, Songyin Huang, Chengrun Li, Shuyi Jia, Pengfei Zhang, Yueling Yuan, Houbing Zhang, Yucai Wang, Bing Yuan, Yan Bao*, Shiyan Xiao*, Menghua Xiong*, Helicity-directed recognition of bacterial phospholipid via radially amphiphilic antimicrobial peptides, Science Advances, 2024 Aug 30;10(35):eadn9435. （影响因子12.5，中科院SCI期刊大类分区：综合性期刊1区）ISSN: 2375-2548
3. Xinshuang Zhang ^#, Dong Luo ^#, Jie Hu ^#, Kangxiu Wu, Shuyi Jia, Xueyi Li, Songyin Huang, Houbing Zhang, Dokyun Kim, Yuzhi Hong, Liping Zhao, Menghua Xiong*, and Yan Bao*, Selective Recognition of Bacterial Phospholipids by Antimicrobial Peptides: Employing a Host-Guest-Mediated Competitive Inhibition Strategy. Biomaterials. 2025 May 6:322:123392（影响因子12.9，中科院SCI期刊大类分区：医学1区）ISSN: 0142-9612
4. Xinshuang Zhang#, Shuyi Jia#, Xueyi Li#, Liping Zhao, Kangxiu Wu, Songyin Huang, Fan Zhang, Houbing Zhang, Dong Luo*, Menghua Xiong*, and Yan Bao*, Hydrophobicity-to-cationic amphipathicity transformable antimicrobial polypeptides for the prevention of medical implant-associated infections. Biomaterials. 2025 Jul 21:325:123564.（影响因子12.9，中科院SCI期刊大类分区：医学1区） ISSN: 0142-9612
5. Yang Bo, Yunjiang Jiang, Kangmei Chen, Kaimin Cai, Wenming Li, Jarron Roy, Yan Bao*, Jianjun Cheng*, Targeting infected host cells in vivo via responsive azido-sugar mediated metabolic cell labeling followed by click reaction, Biomaterials, 2020 April; 238:119843.（影响因子12.9，中科院SCI期刊大类分区：医学1区） ISSN: 0142-9612
6. Cuiyu Zhong^#, Jie Li^#, Suiping Liu, Weirong Li, Qiang Zhang, Junpeng Zhao, Menghua Xiong*, Yan Bao*, Yandan Yao*, Nanoblock-mediated selective oncolytic polypeptide therapy for triple-negative breast cancer, Theranostics, 2023; 13(9): 2800-2810. doi: 10.7150/thno.81834.（影响因子13.3，中科院SCI期刊大类分区：医学1区）ISSN: 1838-7640
7. Weinan Zhang^#, Xiaochuan Wang^#, Jihong Wang^#, Chanjuan Su, Yan Bao*, Menghua Xiong*, The relationship between in vivo toxicity and responsive pH in transistor-Like pH-sensitive nanodetergents, Small Methods, 2025 May;9(5):e2401263. （影响因子9.1，中科院SCI期刊大类分区：材料科学2区）ISSN:2366-9608
8. Yuhao Zhang, Yingxue Deng1, Chanjuan Su, Kangxiu Wu, Chengrun Li, Juntao Wang, Houbing Zhang, Dong Luo, Songyin Huang, Liping Zhao, Megnhua Xiong*, Yan Bao*, A conjugate strategy capable of targeting bacteria and selectively being activated at infection sites, Science China Materials, 2025 may 68(6):2132-2142（影响因子7.4，中科院SCI期刊大类分区：材料科学1区） ISSN: 2095-8226
9. Yan Bao^#, Xuewei Wu^#, Jinjing Chen, Xiangming Hu, Fuxing Zeng, Jianjun Cheng, Hong Jin, Xin Lin, Lin-Feng Chen*, Brd4 modulates the innate immune response through Mnk2-eIF4E pathway-dependent translational control of IκBα, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017 May 16;114(20):E3993-E4001.（影响因子9.1，中科院SCI期刊大类分区：综合性期刊1区）ISSN: 0027-8424被Faculty 1000推荐为2星论文
10. Menghua Xiong^#, Yan Bao^#, Xin Xu^#, Hua Wang, Zhiyuan Han, Zhiyu Wang, Yeqing Liu, Songyin Huang, Ziyuan Song, Jinjing Chen, Richard M. Peek Jr., Lichen Yin*, Lin-Feng Chen*, Jianjun Cheng*, Selective killing of Helicobacter pylori with pH-responsive helix-coil conformation transitionable antimicrobial polypeptides, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017 Nov 28;114(48):12675-12680.（影响因子9.1，中科院SCI期刊大类分区：综合性期刊1区）ISSN: 0027-8424