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Pui-Chi Lo is affiliated with the City University of Hong Kong in China, focusing research primarily in the intersection of Engineering, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, particularly Biomedical Engineering, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, and Immunology.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
  • Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses

They have contributed to various scholarly articles, including notable recent papers such as:

  • Near-infrared-activated anticancer platinum(IV) complexes directly photooxidize biomolecules in an oxygen-independent manner, 2023, Nature Chemistry
  • Enzyme-Responsive Double-Locked Photodynamic Molecular Beacon for Targeted Photodynamic Anticancer Therapy, 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Ferric Ion Driven Assembly of Catalase-like Supramolecular Photosensitizing Nanozymes for Combating Hypoxic Tumors, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Fucoidan-Based Theranostic Nanogel for Enhancing Imaging and Photodynamic Therapy of Cancer, 2020, Nano-Micro Letters
  • Self-adjuvanting cancer nanovaccines, 2022, Journal of Nanobiotechnology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Dennis K. P. Ng
  • Honglin Jin
  • Jonathan F. Lovell
  • Roy C. H. Wong
  • Feijie Xu

Publications by Pui-Chi Lo often appear in journals with repeated contributions such as:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Journal of Nanobiotechnology
  • Acta Biomaterialia
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Cancer Research

Best Publications

  • The unique features and promises of phthalocyanines as advanced photosensitisers for photodynamic therapy of cancer.

    Pui-Chi Lo;M. Salomé Rodríguez-Morgade;Ravindra K. Pandey;Dennis K. P. Ng

  • Stimuli responsive phthalocyanine-based fluorescent probes and photosensitizers

    Roy C.H. Wong;Pui-Chi Lo;Dennis K.P. Ng

  • New Amphiphilic Silicon(IV) Phthalocyanines as Efficient Photosensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, and in vitro Photodynamic Activities

    Pui-Chi Lo;Jian-Dong Huang;Jian-Dong Huang;Diana Y. Y. Cheng;Elaine Y. M. Chan

  • A disulfide-linked conjugate of ferrocenyl chalcone and silicon(IV) phthalocyanine as an activatable photosensitiser

    Janet T. F. Lau;Xiong-Jie Jiang;Dennis K. P. Ng;Pui-Chi Lo

  • Phthalocyanine-polyamine conjugates as highly efficient photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy.

    Xiong-Jie Jiang;Sin-Lui Yeung;Pui-Chi Lo;Wing-Ping Fong

  • HDL-mimicking peptide-lipid nanoparticles with improved tumor targeting.

    Zhihong Zhang;Zhihong Zhang;Juan Chen;Lili Ding;Honglin Jin;Honglin Jin

  • A dual activatable photosensitizer toward targeted photodynamic therapy.

    Janet T. F. Lau;Pui-Chi Lo;Xiong-Jie Jiang;Qiong Wang

  • Hetero-arrays of porphyrins and phthalocyanines

    Pui-Chi Lo;Xuebing Leng;Dennis K.P. Ng

  • A pH-responsive fluorescence probe and photosensitiser based on a tetraamino silicon(IV) phthalocyanine

    Xiong-Jie Jiang;Pui-Chi Lo;Sin-Lui Yeung;Wing-Ping Fong

  • A Zinc(II) Phthalocyanine Conjugated with an Oxaliplatin Derivative for Dual Chemo- and Photodynamic Therapy

    Janet T. F. Lau;Pui-Chi Lo;Wing-Ping Fong;Dennis K. P. Ng

  • Polymeric micelles encapsulating pH-responsive doxorubicin prodrug and glutathione-activated zinc(II) phthalocyanine for combined chemotherapy and photodynamic therapy.

    Di Gao;Pui-Chi Lo

  • Enzyme-Responsive Double-Locked Photodynamic Molecular Beacon for Targeted Photodynamic Anticancer Therapy

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  • Photodynamic molecular beacon triggered by fibroblast activation protein on cancer-associated fibroblasts for diagnosis and treatment of epithelial cancers.

    Pui-Chi Lo;Juan Chen;Klara Stefflova;Michael S. Warren

  • Preparation of unsymmetrical distyryl BODIPY derivatives and effects of the styryl substituents on their in vitro photodynamic properties

    Hui He;Pui-Chi Lo;Sin-Lui Yeung;Wing-Ping Fong

  • Controlling the Nature of Mixed (Phthalocyaninato)(porphyrinato) Rare-Earth(III) Double-Decker Complexes: The Effects of Nonperipheral Alkoxy Substitution of the Phthalocyanine Ligand

    Rongming Wang;Renjie Li;Yong Li;Xianxi Zhang

  • Highly photocytotoxic glucosylated silicon(IV) phthalocyanines. Effects of peripheral chloro substitution on the photophysical and photodynamic properties.

    Pui-Chi Lo;Crystal M. H. Chan;Jian-Yong Liu;Wing-Ping Fong

  • Preparation and in Vitro Photodynamic Activities of Folate-Conjugated Distyryl Boron Dipyrromethene Based Photosensitizers

    Mei-Rong Ke;Sin-Lui Yeung;Dennis K P Ng;Wing-Ping Fong

  • Phthalocyanine-polyamine conjugates as pH-controlled photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy.

    Xiong-Jie Jiang;Pui-Chi Lo;Yee-Man Tsang;Sin-Lui Yeung

  • Glycosylated zinc(II) phthalocyanines as efficient photosensitisers for photodynamic therapy. Synthesis, photophysical properties and in vitro photodynamic activity.

    Chi-Fung Choi;Jian-Dong Huang;Jian-Dong Huang;Pui-Chi Lo;Wing-Ping Fong

  • Halogenated silicon(IV) phthalocyanines with axial poly(ethylene glycol) chains. Synthesis, spectroscopic properties, complexation with bovine serum albumin and in vitro photodynamic activities

    Jian-Dong Huang;Jian-Dong Huang;Shuangqing Wang;Pui-Chi Lo;Wing-Ping Fong

  • Ferric Ion Driven Assembly of Catalase‐like Supramolecular Photosensitizing Nanozymes for Combating Hypoxic Tumors

    Yongxin Li;Pan Sun;Luyang Zhao;Xuehai Yan

  • Synthesis and in vitro photodynamic activity of novel galactose-containing phthalocyanines

    Priscilla P.S. Lee;Pui-Chi Lo;Elaine Y.M. Chan;Wing-Ping Fong

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis K. P. Ng
Dennis K. P. Ng Chinese University of Hong Kong
Gang Zheng
Gang Zheng University of Toronto
Chi Wu
Chi Wu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Renjie Li
Renjie Li Wuhan University
Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer Max Planck Society
Kwok-Pui Fung
Kwok-Pui Fung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paul K.S. Chan
Paul K.S. Chan Chinese University of Hong Kong
Xuehai Yan
Xuehai Yan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kam Sing Wong
Kam Sing Wong Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Tomás Torres
Tomás Torres Autonomous University of Madrid

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