•       You‐Ren Ji, Yong Ju, Hui Kong, Yaya Xu, Chen Zhao, Ryan Zhang, Yue Ma, Lynn L Zheng, Lucy R Shi, Alex Wu, Lu‐An Lin, Carina Peijia Wu, Audrey Qian, Emily Ren, Christine Zhang, Kenny Vo, Sarah Dry, Joseph G Crompton, Noah Federman, Yazhen Zhu, Steven J Jonas, Hsian‐Rong Tseng, Shaohua Lu, Junseok Lee. Detection of Extracellular Vesicles with Colocalized Surface Markers via a Capture–Release–Capture Strategy for Treatment Monitoring in Ewing Sarcoma. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 2026; e05917.

•       You‐Ren Ji, Junseok Lee, Hyoyong Kim, Hui Kong, Chen Zhao, Yong Ju, Ryan Zhang, Jina Kim, Audrey Qian, Diego Sergio Banuet Gonzalez, Yusef Mathkour, Kenny Vo, Hadar Keren‐Gill, Aaron Phung, Jia‐Wei She, Hsiao‐hua Yu, Sungyong You, Hans David Ulmert, Alice Soragni, Sarah Dry, Joseph Garfield Crompton, Noah Federman, Steven John Jonas, Shaohua Lu, Yazhen Zhu, Hsian‐Rong Tseng. Noninvasive Assessment of Protease Activity in Osteosarcoma via Click Chemistry‐Mediated Enrichment of Extracellular Vesicles. Advanced Functional Materials. 2025; 2422469.

•       You-Ren Ji, Ya-Hsiang Hsu, Ming-Hua Syue, Ying-Chu Wang, Shyr-Yi Lin, Tsung-Wei Huang, and Tai-Horng Young. A Controlled Decomposable Hydrogel Triggered with a Specific Enzyme. ACS Omega. 2022; 7, 4, 3254-3261.

•       You-Ren Ji, Ching-Chia Cheng, An-Li Lee, Jonathan Chang-Cheng Shieh, Hsin-Ju Wu, Abel Po-Hao Huang, Yi-Hua Hsu, and Tai-Horng Young. Poly(allylguanidine)-Coated Surfaces Regulate TGF-β in Glioblastoma Cells to Induce Apoptosis via NF-κB Pathway Activation. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2021; 13, 49, 59400-59410. doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c21027

•       You-Ren Ji, Tai-Horng Young, Ting-Yu Tsai, Jin-Shing Chen, Ke-Cheng Chen. Dopamine-Modified Alginate Hydrogel with Effectiveness and Safety for Preoperative Localization of Lung Nodules. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. 2021; 7, 9, 4637-4644. 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.1c00512

•       You-Ren Ji, Shahin Homaeigohar, Yu-hsin Wang, Chen Lin, Tai-Yuan Su, Ching-Chia Cheng, Shih-Hung Yang, and Tai-Horng Young. Selective Regulation of Neurons, Glial Cells, and Neural Stem/Precursor Cells by Poly(allylguanidine)-Coated Surfaces. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2019; 11, 51, 48381–48392. 10.1021/acsami.9b17143

•       Ying-Tzu Yen, Chen Zhao, Tian Gao, Jacqueline Ziqian Yang, Ning Kang, Jiahui Pu, Lei Qiu, Qixin Hu, Hyoyong Kim, Anmin Wang, Junseok Lee, Ryan Y Zhang, Na Liu, Yue Ma, You-Ren Ji, Yong Ju, Lynn L Zheng, James Lee-South, Vivian X Zuo, Audrey Qian, Aaron Kwan, Yating Zhang, Shenghua Zhang, Zhili Wang, Jing Ren, Huaichao Liu, Zihan Wang, Yang Yue, Jina Kim, Jennifer Sun, Gabriella A DiBernardo, Laura B James-Allan, Ying Chen, Weipei Zhu, Guoyun Wang, Renjun Pei, Sanaz Memarzadeh, Sungyong You, Bobbie J Rimel, Kate Lawrenson, Beth Y Karlan, Myung Shin Sim, Shaohua Lu, Jipeng Wan, Na Sun, Hsian-Rong Tseng, Yazhen Zhu. Tumour extracellular vesicle surface Protein-mRNA integration assay for early detection of epithelial ovarian cancer. EBioMedicine. 2025; 119, 105884. doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2025.105884

•       Hyoyong Kim, Junseok Lee, Audrey Qian, You‐Ren Ji, Ryan Zhang, Qixin Hu, Christopher Kazu Williams, Han‐Yu Chuang, Matthew D Smalley, Yaya Xu, Liang Gao, Mary C Mayo, Ting Zhang, Edwin M Posadas, Zaldy S Tan, Harry V Vinters, Keith Vossel, Shino Magaki, Yazhen Zhu, Hsian‐Rong Tseng. Noninvasive Assessment of β‐Secretase Activity Through Click Chemistry‐Mediated Enrichment of Neuronal Extracellular Vesicles to Detect Alzheimer's Disease. Advanced Science. 2025; 2415289. 10.1002/advs.202415289

•       Yong Ju, Joshua Watson, Jasmine J Wang, Ying-Tzu Yen, Lilit Gevorkian, Zijing Chen, Kai Han Tu, Brenda Salumbides, Aaron Phung, Chen Zhao, Hyoyong Kim, You-Ren Ji, Ryan Y Zhang, Junseok Lee, Jun Gong, Kevin Scher, Sungyong You, Jie-Fu Chen, Hsian-Rong Tseng, Yazhen Zhu, Edwin M Posadas. B7-H3-Liquid Biopsy for the Characterization and Monitoring of the Dynamic Biology of Prostate Cancer. Drug Resistance Updates. 2025; 79, 101207. doi.org/10.1016/j.drup.2025.101207

•       Bing Feng, Jing Wang, Ryan Y. Zhang, Anna Yaxuan Wei, Chen Zhao, Ying-Tzu Yena, You-Ren Ji, Hyoyong Kim, Yong Ju, Matthew Smalley, Vivian Xufei Zuo, Liwen Cheng, Aaron Phung, Ziang Zhou, Sitong Yu, Gabriella DiBernardo, Sanaz Memarzadeh, Edwin M. Posadas, Wanxing Chai-Ho, Vatche Agopian, Junseok Lee, Michael W. Yeh, James Wu, Guangjuan Zheng, Hsian-Rong Tseng, Yazhen Zhu. Click chemistry-mediated enrichment of circulating tumor cells and tumor-derived extracellular vesicles for dual liquid biopsy in differentiated thyroid cancer. Nano today. 2024; 58, 102431, 1-15. 10.1016/j.nantod.2024.102431

•       Yu-Yun Gao, You-Ren Ji, Yi-Hua Hsu, Fang-Chun Liao, Nien-Tzu Kao, Abel Po-Hao Huang, Tai-Horng Young. Gelatin-Based Hydrogel for Three-Dimensional Neuron Culture Application. ACS omega. 2023; 8, 48, 45288-45300. 10.1021/acsomega.3c03769

•       Shu-Wei Huang, Fang-Ching Yeh, You-Ren Ji, Ying-Fu Su, Ying-shih Su, Ming-Hsien Chiang, Shian-Chiuan Tzeng, Chien-Yao Fu, Aristine Cheng, Yung-Chih Wang & Yi-Tzu Lee. Chitosan-based hydrogels to treat hydrofluoric acid burns and prevent infection. Drug Delivery and Translational Research. 2021; 11, 1532-1544.  10.1007/s13346-021-01098-y

•       Chia-Hsiang Yen, Sheng-Tien Li, Nai-Chen Cheng, You-Ren Ji, Jyh-Horng Wang, Tai-HorngYoung. Label-free platform on pH-responsive chitosan: Adhesive heterogeneity for cancer stem-like cell isolation from A549 cells via integrin β4. Carbohydrate Polymers. 2020; 239, 116168.  10.1016/j.carbpol.2020.116168

•       Shahin Homaeigohar, Ting-Yu Tsai, Tai-Hong Young, Hsin Ju Yang, You-Ren Ji. An electroactive alginate hydrogel nanocomposite reinforced by functionalized graphite nanofilaments for neural tissue engineering. Carbohydrate Polymers. 2019; 224(15):115112. 10.1016/j.carbpol.2019.115112

•       Shao-Hsuan Chang, MSE; Ashkan Eliasy, MEng; Kai-Jung Chen, MS; You-Ren Ji, MS; Tai-Horng Young, PhD; Tsung-Jen Wang, MD, PhD; Colin E. Willoughby, MD, FRCOphth; Kevin J. Hamill, PhD; Ahmed Elsheikh, PhD. The Relationship Between Mechanical Properties, Ultrastructural Changes, and Intrafibrillar Bond Formation in Corneal UVA/Riboflavin Cross-linking Treatment for Keratoconus. Journal of Refractive Surgery. 2018; 34(4):264-272. 10.3928/1081597X-20180220-01