08/12/2025 Our paper on DeFrND for native nanodisc reconstitution is accepted by Nature Communications! Congrats to Qian, Jing, and Shanwen!
07/01/2025 We recieved a CHRB grant to advance our understanding of tau pathology.
06/01/2025 We are now funded by a R35-MIRA award from NIGMS to characterize membrane fusion and pore formation.
03/03/2025 Welcome our postdoc Dr. Zhongshan He! We now have an expert in nanomedicine!
02/18/2025 UVACC now funds us to potentiate cancer immunotherapy using lipid nanoparticles.
02/03/2025 Welcome our UVA graduate student Riley Loyd from BIMS!
01/23/2025 We are now funded by Hevolution/AFAR to continue our work on membrane damage and repair!
01/06/2025 Welcome our postdoc Dr. Qiaochu Wang! We now have an expert in cell biology!
07/01/2024 Welcome our postdoc Dr. Yinghui Wang! We now have an expert in structural biology!
04/10/2024 Our first paper on mRNA lipid nanoparticles is accepted!
04/01/2024 Welcome our postdoc Dr. Hucheng Chang! We now have a chemist!
04/02/2023 We got a new R21 from NIA to explore the utility of our nanodiscs in the research of AD/ADRD.
01/15/2023 Our review of nanodiscs is published on JMB. Congrats to Sarah!
09/24/2022 Our review of membrane fusion with Dr. Yongli Zhang is published!
05/03/2022 Our paper on isenND is accepted! Congrats to Shanwen and Qian!
05/02/2022 Welcome our postdoc Dr. Jeehae Shin! We now have an expert in nanoparticles!
03/07/2022 Our collaborative work on enterococcus pore-forming toxins is published on Cell!
02/07/2022 Our work on the membrane remodeling activity of complexin is published on NSMB!
08/26/2021 Our paper on circularized nanodiscs is accepted! Congrats to Shanwen and Qian!
05/19/2021 Happy to announce that Sarah Dallo decided to join the lab !
03/26/2021 Our first paper on Nanodisc-ID is accepted!
03/22/2021 Welcome our first rotation student Sarah Dallo!
03/08/2021 Welcome our postdoc Dr. Jing Chang! We now have an expert in phage display!
09/02/2020 We are now funded by the NIH Director's New Innovator Award!
07/01/2020 Shanwen Zhang joined us! Welcome to the Bao lab!
07/01/2019 We are open for business!