Cheng Dong, PhD - Penn State Cancer Institute
Researcher Profile

Cheng Dong, PhD
Department Head and Distinguished Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Scientific Program:Next-Generation Therapies
Research Interests
- Neoplasms
- Melanoma
- Leukocytes
- Cell Adhesion
- Neutrophils
- Neoplasm Metastasis
- Endothelial Cells
- Endothelium
- Integrins
- Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1
- Pseudopodia
- Cell Movement
Recent Publications
2022
Wang, X, Wen, C, Davis, B, Shi, P, Abune, L, Lee, K, Dong, C & Wang, Y 2022, 'Synthetic DNA for Cell Surface Engineering: Experimental Comparison between Click Conjugation and Lipid Insertion in Terms of Cell Viability, Engineering Efficiency, and Displaying Stability', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 3900-3909. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c22774
King, MR, Dong, C & Pruitt, BL 2022, 'The 2022 Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering', Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 353-354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12195-022-00747-7
2021
Fu, Y, Li, A, Wu, J, Kunz, RF, Sun, R, Ding, Z, Wu, J & Dong, C 2021, 'Fibrinogen and fibrin differentially regulate the local hydrodynamic environment in neutrophil–tumor cell–endothelial cell adhesion system', Applied Sciences (Switzerland), vol. 11, no. 1, 79, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11010079
Inam, H, Sokirniy, I, Rao, Y, Shah, A, Naeemikia, F, O'Brien, E, Dong, C, McCandlish, DM & Pritchard, JR 2021, 'Genomic and experimental evidence that ALKATI does not predict single agent sensitivity to ALK inhibitors', iScience, vol. 24, no. 11, 103343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.103343
Wang, D, Kuzma, ML, Tan, X, He, TC, Dong, C, Liu, Z & Yang, J 2021, 'Phototherapy and optical waveguides for the treatment of infection', Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, vol. 179, 114036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addr.2021.114036
2020
Guo, J, Tian, X, Xie, D, Rahn, K, Gerhard, E, Kuzma, ML, Zhou, D, Dong, C, Bai, X, Lu, Z & Yang, J 2020, 'Citrate-Based Tannin-Bridged Bone Composites for Lumbar Fusion', Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 30, no. 27, 2002438. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202002438
Kim, GB, Aragon-Sanabria, V, Randolph, L, Jiang, H, Reynolds, JA, Webb, BS, Madhankumar, A, Lian, X, Connor, JR, Yang, J & Dong, C 2020, 'High-affinity mutant Interleukin-13 targeted CAR T cells enhance delivery of clickable biodegradable fluorescent nanoparticles to glioblastoma', Bioactive Materials, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 624-635. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioactmat.2020.04.011
Shi, P, Wang, X, Davis, B, Coyne, J, Dong, C, Reynolds, J & Wang, Y 2020, 'In Situ Synthesis of an Aptamer-Based Polyvalent Antibody Mimic on the Cell Surface for Enhanced Interactions between Immune and Cancer Cells', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, vol. 59, no. 29, pp. 11892-11897. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202004206
Cochrane, KA, Zhang, T, Kozhakhmetov, A, Lee, JH, Zhang, F, Dong, C, Neaton, JB, Robinson, JA, Terrones, M, Bargioni, AW & Schuler, B 2020, 'Intentional carbon doping reveals CH as an abundant charged impurity in nominally undoped synthetic WS2 and WSe2 ', 2D Materials, vol. 7, no. 3, 031003. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ab8543
2019
He, Y, Li, Q, Ma, C, Xie, D, Li, L, Zhao, Y, Shan, D, Chomos, SK, Dong, C, Tierney, JW, Sun, L, Lu, D, Gui, L & Yang, J 2019, 'Development of osteopromotive poly (octamethylene citrate glycerophosphate) for enhanced bone regeneration', Acta Biomaterialia, vol. 93, pp. 180-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2019.03.050