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Jinxiong Cheng

Researcher Graduate Student
JIC259@pitt.edu
Bioengineering Department

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Jinxiong Cheng is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Bioengineering at the Swanson School of Engineering. Jinxiong received his bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen in 2023, under the mentorship of Prof. Xingyu Jiang. During his senior year, he joined Prof. Aaron Wheeler’s Lab at the University of Toronto (UofT), Ontario and finished his undergraduate thesis about digital microfluidics. Now, his research interests are mainly in high-throughput microfluidics technology and cancer biology.

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BE, Biomedical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, 2019 - 2023

Ma, Y., Shih, C.H., Cheng, J., Chen, H.C., Wang, L.J., Tan, Y., Zhang, Y., Brown, D.D., Oesterreich, S., Lee, A.V., Chiu, Y.C., & Chen, Y.C. (2025). High-Throughput Empirical and Virtual Screening To Discover Novel Inhibitors of Polyploid Giant Cancer Cells in Breast Cancer. Anal Chem, 97(10), 5498-5506.American Chemical Society (ACS). doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c05138.

Chen, H.C., Ma, Y., Cheng, J., & Chen, Y.C. (2024). Advances in Single-Cell Techniques for Linking Phenotypes to Genotypes. Cancer Heterog Plast, 1(1), 1-24.Pivot Science Publications. doi: 10.47248/chp2401010004.

Chiang, C.C., Anne, R., Chawla, P., Shaw, R.M., He, S., Rock, E.C., Zhou, M., Cheng, J., Gong, Y.N., & Chen, Y.C. (2024). Deep learning unlocks label-free viability assessment of cancer spheroids in microfluidics. Lab Chip, 24(12), 3169-3182.Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). doi: 10.1039/d4lc00197d.

Liu, C., Cheng, J., Liu, Y., Mou, L., Xia, Y., Wang, P., & Jiang, X. (2024). The nature of PDMS affects the results of the immunoassays carried out in microfluidic channels. Biomedical Analysis, 1(1), 54-63.Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.bioana.2024.01.002.

Liu, X., Chen, Y., Hang, C., Cheng, J., Peng, D., Li, Y., & Jiang, X. (2024). Coupling Nanoscale Precision with Multiscale Imaging: A Multifunctional Near-Infrared Dye for the Brain. ACS Nano, 18(33), 22233-22244.American Chemical Society (ACS). doi: 10.1021/acsnano.4c06103.

Liu, X., Cheng, J., & Zhao, Y. (2024). Tumor Microenvironment Based on Extracellular Matrix Hydrogels for On-Chip Drug Screening. Biosensors (Basel), 14(9), 429.MDPI. doi: 10.3390/bios14090429.

Ma, Y., Shih, C.H., Cheng, J., Chen, H.C., Wang, L.J., Tan, Y., Chiu, Y.C., & Chen, Y.C. (2024). High-Throughput Empirical and Virtual Screening to Discover Novel Inhibitors of Polyploid Giant Cancer Cells in Breast Cancer. bioRxiv, 5(10-09), 2024.09.23.614522.Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. doi: 10.1101/2024.09.23.614522.

Liu, X., Zhao, Y., Dou, J., Hou, Q., Cheng, J., & Jiang, X. (2022). Bioeffects of Inhaled Nanoplastics on Neurons and Alteration of Animal Behaviors through Deposition in the Brain. Nano Lett, 22(3), 1091-1099.American Chemical Society (ACS). doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04184.