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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society

Overview

Xuefei Huang is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology and Medicine. The main subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry, Cell Biology, Biomedical Engineering, and Immunology.

The scientist's work primarily focuses on areas related to glycosylation and glycoproteins, carbohydrate chemistry and synthesis, and proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research. Additional topics within their scope of research cover monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, immunotherapy and immune responses, nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research.

Recent publications by Xuefei Huang include the following:

  • "Effective atherosclerotic plaque inflammation inhibition with targeted drug delivery by hyaluronan conjugated atorvastatin nanoparticles" (2020) published in Nanoscale
  • "Carbohydrate Sulfation As a Mechanism for Fine-Tuning Siglec Ligands" (2021) published in ACS Chemical Biology
  • "Glycoengineering of Natural Killer Cells with CD22 Ligands for Enhanced Anticancer Immunotherapy" (2020) published in ACS Central Science
  • "Carbohydrate Conjugates in Vaccine Developments" (2020) published in Frontiers in Chemistry
  • "Chemical Synthesis and Immunological Evaluation of a Pentasaccharide Bearing Multiple Rare Sugars as a Potential Anti-pertussis Vaccine" (2020) published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Huang include:

  • Sherif Ramadan
  • Xuanjun Wu
  • Jian Liu
  • Shuyao Lang
  • Zahra Rashidijahanabad

Huang publishes regularly in several scientific journals and platforms. Notable publication venues with multiple contributions are:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • ACS Chemical Biology
  • UNC Libraries
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

The scientist has received recognition within the scientific community, including fellowships awarded by professional organizations. These honors include:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), awarded in 2019
  • Fellow of the American Chemical Society, awarded in 2013

Best Publications

  • Magnetic glyco-nanoparticles: a unique tool for rapid pathogen detection, decontamination, and strain differentiation.

    Kheireddine El-Boubbou;Cyndee Gruden;Xuefei Huang

  • Iterative One‐Pot Synthesis of Oligosaccharides

    Xuefei Huang;Lijun Huang;Haisheng Wang;Xin-Shan Ye

  • Porphyrins and metalloporphyrins: versatile circular dichroic reporter groups for structural studies.

    Xuefei Huang;Koji Nakanishi;Nina Berova

  • Magnetic glyco-nanoparticles: a tool to detect, differentiate, and unlock the glyco-codes of cancer via magnetic resonance imaging.

    Kheireddine El-Boubbou;David C. Zhu;Chrysoula Vasileiou;Babak Borhan

  • Zinc Porphyrin Tweezer in Host−Guest Complexation: Determination of Absolute Configurations of Diamines, Amino Acids, and Amino Alcohols by Circular Dichroism

    Xuefei Huang;Barry H. Rickman;Babak Borhan;Nina Berova

  • Chiral recognition by CD-sensitive dimeric zinc porphyrin host. 1. Chiroptical protocol for absolute configurational assignments of monoalcohols and primary monoamines.

    Tibor Kurtán;Nasri Nesnas;Yuan-Qiang Li;Xuefei Huang

  • Absolute configurational assignments of secondary amines by CD-sensitive dimeric zinc porphyrin host.

    Xuefei Huang;Naoko Fujioka;Gennaro Pescitelli;Frank E. Koehn

  • Multi-component one-pot synthesis of the tumor-associated carbohydrate antigen Globo-H based on preactivation of thioglycosyl donors.

    Zhen Wang;Luyuan Zhou;Kheireddine El-Boubbou;Xin-shan Ye

  • Hyaluronic acid immobilized magnetic nanoparticles for active targeting and imaging of macrophages.

    Medha Kamat;Kheireddine El-Boubbou;David C. Zhu;Teri Lansdell

  • Development of Multifunctional Hyaluronan-Coated Nanoparticles for Imaging and Drug Delivery to Cancer Cells

    Mohammad H. El-Dakdouki;David C. Zhu;Kheireddine El-Boubbou;Medha Kamat

  • Pre‐Activation‐Based One‐Pot Synthesis of an α‐(2,3)‐Sialylated Core‐Fucosylated Complex Type Bi‐Antennary N‐Glycan Dodecasaccharide

    Bin Sun;Balasubramanian Srinivasan;Xuefei Huang;Xuefei Huang

  • Magnesium tetraarylporphyrin tweezer: a CD-sensitive host for absolute configurational assignments of α-chiral carboxylic acids

    Gloria Proni;Gennaro Pescitelli;Xuefei Huang;Koji Nakanishi

  • Enhancement of cell recognition in vitro by dual-ligand cancer targeting gold nanoparticles.

    Xi Li;Hongyu Zhou;Lei Yang;Guoqing Du

  • Installation of Electron-Donating Protective Groups, a Strategy for Glycosylating Unreactive Thioglycosyl Acceptors using the Preactivation-Based Glycosylation Method

    Youlin Zeng;Zhen Wang;Dennis Whitfield;Xuefei Huang

  • Zinc porphyrin tweezer in host-guest complexation: determination of absolute configurations of primary monoamines by circular dichroism.

    Xuefei Huang;Babak Borhan;Barry H. Rickman;Koji Nakanishi

  • Preactivation-based, one-pot combinatorial synthesis of heparin-like hexasaccharides for the analysis of heparin-protein interactions.

    Zhen Wang;Yongmei Xu;Bo Yang;Gopinath Tiruchinapally

  • Recent Development in Carbohydrate Based Anti-cancer Vaccines.

    Zhaojun Yin;Xuefei Huang

  • A Facile Method for Oxidation of Primary Alcohols to Carboxylic Acids and Its Application in Glycosaminoglycan Syntheses

    Lijun Huang;Nardos Teumelsan;Xuefei Huang

  • Boosting Immunity to Small Tumor-Associated Carbohydrates with Bacteriophage Qβ Capsids

    Zhaojun Yin;Marta Comellas-Aragones;Sudipa Chowdhury;Philip Bentley

  • Highly efficient syntheses of hyaluronic acid oligosaccharides.

    Lijun Huang;Xuefei Huang

Frequent Co-Authors

Koji Nakanishi
Koji Nakanishi Columbia University
Nina Berova
Nina Berova Columbia University
M. G. Finn
M. G. Finn Georgia Institute of Technology
Babak Borhan
Babak Borhan Michigan State University
Chi-Huey Wong
Chi-Huey Wong Scripps Research Institute
Gennaro Pescitelli
Gennaro Pescitelli University of Pisa
Stefan Matile
Stefan Matile University of Geneva
Göran Larson
Göran Larson University of Gothenburg
Wei Li
Wei Li University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Jonas A. Nilsson
Jonas A. Nilsson University of Gothenburg

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