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D-Index
73
Citations
21140
World Ranking
4909
National Ranking
908

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Yu Lei is affiliated with Sun Yat-sen University in China and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, immunology, and microbiology. Their work spans multiple subfields including immunology, molecular biology, oncology, biomedical engineering, and infectious diseases.

Their research focuses on critical areas such as interferon and immune responses, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, immunotherapy and immune responses, immune cell function and interaction, immune cells in cancer, inflammasome and immune disorders, and CAR-T cell therapy research.

Yu Lei has coauthored numerous papers with frequent collaborators including Yuying Xie, James J. Moon, Wang Gong, Xingwu Zhou, and Haitao Wen.

Notable publication venues where Yu Lei has published include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cancer Research, The Journal of Immunology, Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts, and the Journal of Controlled Release.

Some recent important papers by Yu Lei include:

  • Amplifying STING activation by cyclic dinucleotide-manganese particles for local and systemic cancer metalloimmunotherapy, 2021, Nature Nanotechnology
  • The Intermucosal Connection between the Mouth and Gut in Commensal Pathobiont-Driven Colitis, 2020, Cell
  • STING controls nociception via type I interferon signalling in sensory neurons, 2021, Nature
  • Strategies for the development of metalloimmunotherapies, 2024, Nature Biomedical Engineering
  • OXPHOS promotes apoptotic resistance and cellular persistence in T H 17 cells in the periphery and tumor microenvironment, 2022, Science Immunology

Yu Lei received the Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) award in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Fluorescence based explosive detection: from mechanisms to sensory materials.

    Xiangcheng Sun;Ying Wang;Yu Lei

  • Microbial biosensors: A review

    Liang Su;Wenzhao Jia;Changjun Hou;Yu Lei

  • Fluorescent carbon dots and their sensing applications

    Xiangcheng Sun;Yu Lei

  • Zinc oxide nanocomb biosensor for glucose detection

    J. X. Wang;Xiaowei Sun;A. Wei;Y. Lei

  • Electrospun Co3O4 nanofibers for sensitive and selective glucose detection

    Yu Ding;Ying Wang;Liang Su;Michael Bellagamba

  • Amplifying STING activation by cyclic dinucleotide-manganese particles for local and systemic cancer metalloimmunotherapy.

    Xiaoqi Sun;Yu Zhang;Jiaqian Li;Kyung Soo Park

  • Ammonia gas sensors: A comprehensive review.

    Dongwook Kwak;Yu Lei;Radenka Maric

  • Enzymatic glucose biosensor based on ZnO nanorod array grown by hydrothermal decomposition

    A. Wei;X. W. Sun;J. X. Wang;Y. Lei

  • Rate Constants and Mechanisms of the Reactions of Cl• and Cl2•– with Trace Organic Contaminants

    Yu Lei;Shuangshuang Cheng;Na Luo;Xin Yang

  • CuO Nanospheres Based Nonenzymatic Glucose Sensor

    Eliot Reitz;Wenzhao Jia;Michael Gentile;Ying Wang

  • Ultrasensitive and selective non-enzymatic glucose detection using copper nanowires.

    Yuchan Zhang;Liang Su;Dan Manuzzi;Honorio Valdés Espinosa de los Monteros

  • Metal oxide based non-enzymatic electrochemical sensors for glucose detection

    Qiuchen Dong;Heejeong Ryu;Yu Lei

  • Solid-state gas sensors for high temperature applications – a review

    Yixin Liu;Joseph Parisi;Xiangcheng Sun;Yu Lei

  • Reactivity of Chlorine Radicals (Cl∙ and Cl2∙─) with Dissolved Organic Matter and the Formation of Chlorinated Byproducts

    Yu Lei;Xin Lei;Paul Westerhoff;Xinran Zhang

  • CuO nanowires based sensitive and selective non-enzymatic glucose detection

    Yuchan Zhang;Yuchan Zhang;Yixin Liu;Liang Su;Zhonghua Zhang

  • Molybdenum Trioxide (α-MoO3) Nanoribbons for Ultrasensitive Ammonia (NH3) Gas Detection: Integrated Experimental and Density Functional Theory Simulation Studies.

    Dongwook Kwak;Mengjing Wang;Kristie J. Koski;Liang Zhang

  • PD-1/SHP-2 inhibits Tc1/Th1 phenotypic responses and the activation of T cells in the tumor microenvironment.

    Jing Li;Hyun Bae Jie;Yu Lei;Neil Gildener-Leapman

  • PD-1 Status in CD8+ T Cells Associates with Survival and Anti-PD-1 Therapeutic Outcomes in Head and Neck Cancer

    Benjamin A. Kansy;Benjamin A. Kansy;Fernando Concha-Benavente;Raghvendra M. Srivastava;Hyun Bae Jie

  • Microwave-assisted ultrafast and facile synthesis of fluorescent carbon nanoparticles from a single precursor: preparation, characterization and their application for the highly selective detection of explosive picric acid

    Xiangcheng Sun;Junkai He;Yongtao Meng;Lichun Zhang

  • Ovarian cancer stem cells and macrophages reciprocally interact through the WNT pathway to promote pro-tumoral and malignant phenotypes in 3D engineered microenvironments.

    Shreya Raghavan;Pooja Mehta;Yuying Xie;Yu L. Lei

  • One-pot and ultrafast synthesis of nitrogen and phosphorus co-doped carbon dots possessing bright dual wavelength fluorescence emission

    Xiangcheng Sun;Christian Brückner;Yu Lei

  • Manganese dioxide as a new cathode catalyst in microbial fuel cells

    Xiang Li;Boxun Hu;Steven Suib;Yu Lei

  • Electrocatalytic oxidation and reduction of H2O2 on vertically aligned Co3O4 nanowalls electrode: Toward H2O2 detection

    Wenzhao Jia;Min Guo;Zhe Zheng;Ting Yu

Frequent Co-Authors

Baikun Li
Baikun Li University of Connecticut
Chang Ming Li
Chang Ming Li Suzhou University of Science and Technology
Wilfred Chen
Wilfred Chen University of Delaware
Jenny P.-Y. Ting
Jenny P.-Y. Ting University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Changjun Hou
Changjun Hou Chongqing University
Robert L. Ferris
Robert L. Ferris University of Pittsburgh
Ashok Mulchandani
Ashok Mulchandani University of California, Riverside
Christian Brückner
Christian Brückner University of Connecticut
Gregory T. Wolf
Gregory T. Wolf University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Pu-Xian Gao
Pu-Xian Gao University of Connecticut

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