Feng Jia

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HIGHLIGHTS

• Industrial experience in immunoassay development, design and execute experiment, document

writing, process optimization, testing method development and technology transfer

• Expert in biomaterials, drug delivery, polymeric nanoparticle fabrication, functionalizing

nanoparticles with antibody and enzyme immobilization

• Hands-on experience in protein assay, NMR, ELISA, DNA assay, HPLC, FPLC FTIR, Raman,

Western blots, SEM, NIR, TGA, DSC, GC, XRD, MS, TGA, XRF, AFM, TEM, XPS, optical and

fluorescence microscopy, SDS PAGE, Native PAGE, and fluorescence spectrophotometry

• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote. MATLAB, AutoCAD, LabVIEW,

MathCAD, C language

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA, GPA: 3.9, July 2013

Advisors: Profs. Surya Mallapragada and Balaji Narasimhan

Thesis Title: Design of novel nano-structured polymeric platform for multi-enzyme co-localization

• M.S. in Chemical Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA, GPA: 4.0,

August 2009

Advisor: Prof. Shuguang Deng

Thesis Title: Evaluation of zeolites for oxygen concentration by pressure swing adsorption

• B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Major: Bioengineering Northwest University, Xi’an, Shaanxi,

China, GPA: 3.6, July 2007

WORK AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Principal Scientist, Saladax Biomedical, Inc. September 2013-Present

• Provided leading technical support for optimizing innovative immunoassay formulation in

personalizing chemotherapy

• Self-motivated on taking initiatives to resolve challenging technical issues

• Designed and implemented experiments to optimize the assay formulation

• Processed and analyzed the data efficiently for technical communication

• Presented ongoing work and progress to the colleagues in the internal meetings

• Independently reviewed claim verification results and prepared critical design output documents

• Processed clinical data in supporting global market development

• Provided key feedback in monthly core team meeting consisting of senior managers from R&D,

marketing and clinical labs

October 2009 – August 2013

Graduate Assistant, Iowa State University,

• Surface functionalized polyanhydride nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery to mitochondria and

analyzed the released drugs using GC and HPLC

• Analyzed protein using BCA, UV-Vis, SDS-PAGE, CD, HPLC and FPLC

• Analyzed DNA using gel electrophoresis and detection assay

• Synthesized amphiphilic polyanhydride monomers, prepolymers and copolymers; characterized

prepolymesr and copolymers using NMR and GPC

• Prepared amphiphilic block copolymer based on Pluronic potentially applied in drug delivery,

synthesis of nano-composites and bio-sensors

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• Designed multifunctional nanoparticles and characterized the nanoparticles using DLS and SEM

• Designed functionalized polymeric nanoparticles for co-localizing multi-enzymes to enhance the

overall catalytic efficiency by approximately 100%

• Developed block copolymer-QD micelles for multi-enzyme co-localization to promote the catalytic

efficiency by 2-fold; used FRET to study the adsorption of enzyme on micelles

• Designed DNA directed co-localization of multiple enzymes on nanoparticles as well as

strategies for co-localizing the enzymes to improve the product yield efficiency

Mentor for NSF BioMap REU program June 2010-August 2013

• Participated in designing research project with corresponding faculty member for the program

• Supervised undergraduate student in implementing research project and instructed students on

preparation of the poster and the report

Teaching assistant, Iowa State University, August 2010-December 2010

• Served as a lab assistant in ChE325 to solve the lab related problem for undergraduate students

and set up the instrument; graded the lab report and lab presentation

August 2007 – July 2009

Graduate Assistant, New Mexico State University,

• Designed and prepared a model PSA column unit for gas mixture separation

AWARD

• Recognized as a Bionanotechnology Graduate Student Award finalist at the AIChE conference in

2013

PUBLICATIONS

• Liu, X.; Wang, R.; Peng, H.; Jia, F.; Poovaiah, N., Liu, X.; Dong, L., Wang, Q. Emerging

Nanostructured Materials for Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering. Journal of Materials Chemistry

B (under review)

• Liu, M.; Li, M.; Sun, S.; Li, B.; Du, D.; Sun, J.; Cao, F.; Li, H.; Jia, F.; Wang, T.; Chang, N.; Yu, H.;

Wang, Q.; Peng, H. The use of antibody modified liposomes loaded with AMO-1 to deliver

oligonucleotides to ischemic myocardium for arrhythmia therapy. Biomaterials 2014, 35(11):

3697-3707.

• Jia, F.; Mallapragada, S. K.; Narasimhan, B. Materials-based strategies for multi-enzyme

immobilization and co-localization: A review. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2014, 111(2), 209-222.

• Jia, F.; Liu, X.; Mallapragada, S. K.; Narasimhan, B.; Wang, Q. Multifunctional nanoparticles for

targeted delivery of immune activating and cancer therapeutic agents. J. Control. Release

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• Jia, F.; Narasimhan, B.; Mallapragada, S. K. Biomimetic multienzyme complexes based on

nanoscale platforms. AIChE J. 2013, 59 (2), 355-360.

• Jia, F.; Zhang, Y.; Narasimhan, B.; Mallapragada, S. K. Block copolymer-quantum dot micelles

for multi-enzyme co-localization. Langmuir 2012, 28 (50), 173**-*****.

• Zhang, B.; Jia, F.; Fleming, M. Q.; Mallapragada, S. K. Injectable self-assembled block

copolymers for sustained gene and drug co-delivery: An in vitro study Int. J. Pham. 2012, 427 (1),

88-96.

• Saha, D.; Bao, Z.; Jia, F.; Deng, S. Adsorption of CO2, CH4, N2O and N2 on MOF-5, MOF-177

and zeolite 5A, Environ. Sci. Technol. 2010, 44 (5), 1820-1826.

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