Position: Associate Professor
School/Academic Group:  School of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Email： jiat@whu.edu.cn

Education:

1994.9－1998.6: Wuhan University, Bachelor

2000.9－2005.12: Wuhan University, Ph.D.

Working Experience:

2005.12－2016.10: Lecturer, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University

2015.10－2016.10: Visiting Scholar, University of Kansas

2016.11－Present: Associate Professor, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University

Current Teaching Interests/Responsibilities:

Experiment of Inorganic Chemistry

Research Interests:

Small molecule fluorescent probes

Synthesis and structure-activity relationship study of azacycles

Synthesis of chemical drugs, pesticides and intermediates

Publications:

1.*Tao Jia, Jing Wang, Peng Guo, *Junping Yu, Characterizations of cationic γ-carbolines binding with double-stranded DNA by spectroscopic methods and AFM imaging, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015, 13, 1234-1242.

2.Li Ma, Xiaolin Wang, Tao Jia, Wei Wei, *Mei-Sze Chua, Samuel So, Tankyrase  inhibitors attenuate  WNT/β-catenin  signaling  and inhibit growth of hepatocellular carcinoma cells,Oncotarget, 2015, 6(28), 25390-25401.

3.*Tao Jia, Jin Xiang, Jing Wang, Peng Guo, *Junping Yu, Interactions of newly designed dicationic carbazole derivatives with double-stranded DNA: syntheses, binding studies and AFM imaging, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2013, 11, 5512-5520.

4. K. Wang, T. Li, X.M. Ye, P. Guo, *T. Jia, Synthesis of dicationic carbazole and 4’-amino- (3,3’-bipyridine)-4-ol and the spectral characteristics of carbazoles, Asian J. Chem., 2013, 25(8),4632-4636.

5.*Shibin Ai, Tao Jia, Weilun Ai, Jianli Duan, Yongmei Liu, Jing Chen, Xin Liu, Fan Yang, Yuan Tian, *Zebo Huang, Targeted delivery of doxorubicin through conjugation with EGF receptor-binding peptide overcomes drug resistance in human colon cancer cells, Brit. J. Pharmacol., 2013, 168, 1719-1735.

6.*Tao Jia, New route for the synthesis of chiral hydrazine SADP, Lett. Org. Chem., 2012, 9 (5), 325-328.