I am currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Bioengineering of the University of Pittsburgh, and a member of Chen Lab under the supervision of Prof. Yu-Chih Chen at Hillman Cancer Center. In terms of my undergraduate study, I was at the Department of Biomedical Engineering , Southern University of Science and Technology (南方科技大学生物医学工程系), advised by Prof. Xingyu Jiang (蒋兴宇).
During my senior year, I joined Prof. Aaron Wheeler’s Lab at the University of Toronto, and finished my undergraduate thesis about digital microfluidics.
My research interest includes microfluidics, nanotechnology, single-cell analysis and oncology.
🔥 News
- 2025.07: 🎉🎉My first paper has been accepted in Cell Reports Methods!
- 2025.06: 🎉🎉I passed the preliminary exam and advanced to PhD candidacy!
- 2023.09: I started my PhD journey in the Chen Lab at the University of Pittsburgh!
- 2023.04: I was admitted to PhD programs at UofT, Pitt, NYU, and UMN; MS programs at UCLA, BU, Cornell and CMU.
- 2022.09: I joined the Wheeler Lab at the University of Toronto as a visiting undergraduate researcher.
- 2020.09: I joined the Jiang Group at SUSTech as an undergraduate researcher.
📝 Publications
Jinxiong Cheng, Edwin C Rock, Mishal Rao, Hsiao-Chun Chen, Yushu Ma, Kun-Che Chang, Yu-Chih Chen*
Yushu Ma, Chien-Hung Shih, Jinxiong Cheng, Hsiao-Chun Chen, Li-Ju Wang, Yanhao Tan, Yuan Zhang, Daniel D Brown, Steffi Oesterreich, Adrian V Lee, Yu-Chiao Chiu, Yu-Chih Chen*
Tumor Microenvironment Based on Extracellular Matrix Hydrogels for On-Chip Drug Screening
Xiaoyan Liu, Jinxiong Cheng, Yingcan Zhao
Xiaoyan Liu, Yao Chen, Chen Hang, Jinxiong Cheng, Dinglu Peng, Ying Li, Xingyu Jiang*
The nature of PDMS affects the results of the immunoassays carried out in microfluidic channels
Chengyu Liu, Jinxiong Cheng, Yan Liu, Lei Mou, Yong Xia, Pengfei Wang, Xingyu Jiang*
Xiaoyan Liu, Yingcan Zhao, Jiabin Dou, Qinghong Hou, Jinxiong Cheng, Xingyu Jiang*
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2023.05 Outstanding graduates at the school level of SUSTech
- 2022.10 Special Funds for the Cultivation of Guangdong College Students’ Scientific and Technological Innovation (‘Climbing Program’)
- 2022.09 Second-class Outstanding Students Scholarship
- 2021.09 First-class Outstanding Students Scholarship (Top 5%)
- 2021.05 Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Programs
- 2020.09 Second-class Outstanding Students Scholarship
📖 Educations
- 2023.09 - present, Doctor of Philosophy, Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States.
- 2019.09 - 2023.06, Undergraduate, Southern Univeristy of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
- 2016.09 - 2019.06, Hefei No.8 High School, Hefei, China.
📚 Research Projects
- Blocking cancer metastasis by targeting cell migration
- Discover potent cell migration inhibitors and testing their efficacy in vivo
- Enhance the efficiency of cell usage with a 3D-printed plug
- dECM-based cancer chip for high-throughput drug screening
- Construct a microfluidic chip based on the neural and stromal microenvironment of pancreatic cancer, investigate the relationship between different types of cells
- Research on the effect of nanoplastics on animal neurons
- Study the neurotoxicity of polystyrene nanoplastics (PS-COOH, PS-NH2) at different sizes
- Demonstrate behavioral alterations in model organisms due to nanoplastic exposure
💻 Internships
- 2022.09 - 2022.12, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
👨⚖️ Teaching Assistant
- BIOENG 1220 BIOTRANSPORT PHENOMENA (2024 Fall)