Prof. Songping Zhang obtained her B.S. (1998) and Ph.D (2002) degrees in Biochemical Engineering from Tianjin University, China, followed by postdoctoral work in Lund University (Dec 2002-Dec 2004), Sweden, before she joined IPE in Jan. 2005.

Prof. Zhang has broad research interests in bio-reaction, bio-separation and bio-formulations, with emphasis on activity, structure stabilization of biomacromolecules including enzymes and biopharmaceuticals. Her recent research directions include: 1) the design and large-scale separation & purification of vaccine antigens, novel delivery and quality control for vaccines; 2) the development and application of nanostructured biocatalysts; 3) anti-tumor drug research based on virus like particles and nanomaterials.

Prof. Zhang has published more than 120 peer-reviewed paper on top journals including ACS Nano, Adv Func Mater, ACS Catalysis, J Virology, J Chromatography A, et al, and holds more 30 patents. She has developed anti-deactivation purification and quality control technologies for super-large biomolecules like virus and virus-like particles using as vaccine antigens, a number of the technologies succeeded in industrial applications. She is serving as Guest Editor of J Chromatography A’ Special Issue, and editorial board member of J Chromatography A, Biochemical Engineering Journal and Biotechnology Notes. She is Veterinary Drug Assessment Expert of Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China, Visiting Professor of Gunma University, Japan.

Prof. Zhang has supervised or co-supervised 13 Ph.D students and more than 20 Mater Degree students, many of them were honored with National Scholarship and IPE Scholarship. Her research group has set up long-term collaboration with professors in University Minnesota (USA), Harvard University, The University of Adelaide, et al.

1. A possible action of divalent transition metal ions at the interpentameric interface of inactivated foot-and-mouth disease virus provides a simple but effective approach to enhance Stability. Journal of Virology, 2021, 95 (7): e02431-20

2. Performance of agarose and gigaporous chromatographic media as function of pore-to-adsorbate size ratio over wide span from ovalbumin to virus like particles. J Chromatography A, 2021, 1638: 461879

3. Antimonene nanosheets-based Z-scheme heterostructure with enhanced reactive oxygen species generation and photothermal conversion efficiency for photonic therapy of cancer. Adv Healthcare Materials, 2021, 2001835

4. An apoferritin-haemagglutinin conjugate vaccine with encapsulated nucleoprotein antigen peptide from influenza virus confers enhanced cross protection. Bioconjugate Chem., 2020, 31, 8, 1948-1959.

5. An antimonene/Cp*Rh(phen)Cl black phosphorus hybrid nanosheet based Z-scheme artificial photosynthesis for enhanced photo/bio-catalytic CO2 Reduction. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, 8: 323-333

6. Enhanced solar energy harvest and electron transfer through intra- and intermolecular dual channels in chlorosome-mimicking supramolecular self-assemblies. ACS Catal., 2018, 8: 10732？10745

7. Zhang Songping*. Porphyrin/SiO2/Cp*Rh(bpy)Cl hybrid nanoparticles mimicking chloroplast with enhanced electronic energy-transfer across molecular wires for biocatalyzed artificial photosynthesis. Adv Func Mater., 2018, 28: 1705083.

8. Integration of artificial photosynthesis system for enhanced electronic energy-transfer efficacy: a case study for solar energy driven bioconversion of carbon dioxide to methanol. Small, 2016, 2016, 12(34): 4753-4762.

9. Tethering of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide inside hollow nanofibers for high-yield synthesis of methanol from carbon dioxide catalyzed by coencapsulated multienzymes. ACS Nano, 2015, 9 (4): 4600-4610.