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Mr Zifei Han

Mr Zifei Han

Postdoctoral Fellow

2019-2023: Scientia Ph.D. in Chemistry, The University of New South Wales, Australia

2014-2017: Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Science Chemical Biology, Peking University, China

2010-2014: Bachelor of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, China

Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering

Dr. Zifei Han is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Chemical Engineering at The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia. He received his Bachelor of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Peking University (PKU) in 2014 and completed his Master of Science in Chemical Biology at PKU in 2017. He obtained his Scientia Ph.D. in Chemistry from UNSW Sydney in 2023. His research focuses on developing polymeric materials as therapeutic protein mimics and drug delivery vehicles, as well as smart sensors for food safety.
E-mail
zifei.han@unsw.edu.au
Location
Science and Engineering Building, E8
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Han Z; Li Z; Stenzel MH; Chapman R, 2024, 'Collapsed Star Copolymers Exhibiting Near Perfect Mimicry of the Therapeutic Protein “TRAIL”', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 146, pp. 22093 - 22102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c08658
    Journal articles | 2024
    Mazur F; Han Z; Tjandra AD; Chandrawati R, 2024, 'Digitalization of Colorimetric Sensor Technologies for Food Safety', Advanced Materials, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202404274
    Journal articles | 2023
    Han Z; Li Z; Raveendran R; Farazi S; Cao C; Chapman R; Stenzel MH, 2023, 'Peptide-Conjugated Micelles Make Effective Mimics of the TRAIL Protein for Driving Apoptosis in Colon Cancer', Biomacromolecules, 24, pp. 5046 - 5057, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.3c00668
    Journal articles | 2022
    Han Z; McAlpine SR; Chapman R, 2022, 'Delivering hydrophilic peptide inhibitors of heat shock protein 70 into cancer cells', Bioorganic Chemistry, 122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bioorg.2022.105713
    Journal articles | 2022
    Li Z; Han Z; Stenzel MH; Chapman R, 2022, 'A High Throughput Approach for Designing Polymers That Mimic the TRAIL Protein', Nano Letters, 22, pp. 2660 - 2666, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04469
    Journal articles | 2018
    Tian C; Han Z; Li Y; Wang M; Yang J; Wang X; Zhang Z; Liu J, 2018, 'Synthesis and biological evaluation of 2,6-disubstituted-9H-purine, 2,4-disubstitued-thieno[3,2-d]pyrimidine and -7H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine analogues as novel CHK1 inhibitors', European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 151, pp. 836 - 848, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.03.075
    Journal articles | 2017
    Tian C; Wang M; Han Z; Fang F; Zhang Z; Wang X; Liu J, 2017, 'Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel 6-substituted pyrrolo [3,2-d] pyrimidine analogues as antifolate antitumor agents', European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 138, pp. 630 - 643, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmech.2017.07.002
    Journal articles | 2016
    Li Y; Han Z; Tian C; Zhang Z; Liu J, 2016, 'Design, synthesis and evaluation of novel non-ATP competitive CHK1 inhibitors as chemotherapy sensitizing agents', Journal of Chinese Pharmaceutical Sciences, 25, pp. 726 - 736, http://dx.doi.org/10.5246/jcps.2016.10.081

2024 RSC Applied Polymers Best Oral Presentation Prize

2019-2023 Scientia PhD Scholarship, University of New South Wales 

2014-2016 National Academic Scholarship (2nd Place), Peking University

2013-2014 Outstanding Medical Student (3rd Place), Peking University

My Research Supervision

Undergraduate and Postgraduate Supervision:

Currently supervising 2 Ph.D students