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ProfessorWei Duan

Deakin Distinguished Professor

Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation

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  • Deakin Distinguished Professor
    Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation
  • +61 3 522 71149 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

TEACHING EXPERTISE

HMM201, Medical Nanotechnology, Unit Chair

HME101 Human Biology, Coordinator and Principal Lecturer
H413 School of Medicine Honours Program, Lecturer.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Application of Aptamer Technology in Extracellular Vesicle Research and Development
    Rajindra Napit - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Biomimetic Cellularised Polymer Scaffolds for Heart Valves
    Han Wang - Institute for Frontier Materials
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Engineering aptamer-based nano-biosensing interface for single exosome analysis
    Aisha Javed - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Development of aptamer-based intraoperative platform for surgical pathology
    Jasmine Catague - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Development of novel molecular diagnostics for surgical pathology.
    Samuel McClintock - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Orchestrating cellular processes using vertically aligned nanostructures
    Yuan Jiang - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Radiolabelled Aptamers for Theranostic Treatment of Breast Cancer
    Chris Vi - School of Medicine
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A nanoliposome-based drug delivery system for cancer
    Jia Lin - School of Medicine - 2013
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Surface-Stress-Based Microcantilever Aptasensor
    Yang Lim - School of Engineering - 2012
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    DESIGN, MODELLING, FABRICATION, AND EVALUATION OF A TUNEABLE LSPR DEVICE
    Daryoush Mortazavi - School of Engineering - 2014
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Molting and Reproduction in Portunus Pelagicus
    Michael Stewart - School of Medicine - 2010
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Tailored hollow mesoporous silica nanoplatforms with biological labels for colon targeted drug deliver systems
    Xiaodong She - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    An aptamer-mediated siRNA delivery system targeting breast tumourigenic cells
    Tao Wang - School of Medicine - 2014
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Delivery of Fluorouracil and siRNA by Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles to Drug Resistant Colorectal Cancer
    Lijue Chen - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2016
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Developing RNA aptamer technology for targeting cancer stem cells
    Dongxi Xiang - School of Medicine - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Gold Nanoparticles Based DNA Detection in Microfluidics
    Xinchu Zhao - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Aptamer-mediated siRNA delivery to target colon cancer stem cells
    Hadi Al Shamaileh - School of Medicine - 2016
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The role of IL-6 family signalling components in ovarian cancer
    Hao Fang - School of Medicine - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Novel strategies to overcome drug resistance in liver cancer
    Wang Yin - School of Medicine - 2018
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A bifunctional aptamer for the targeted treatment of brain metastases
    Joanna Macdonald - School of Medicine - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Development of CD81 aptamers for extracellular vesicle-based theranostics
    Yumei Zhang - School of Medicine - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Development of a novel exosome-based liquid biopsy assay for early detection of pancreatic cancer
    Hridika Talukder Barua - School of Medicine - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    PVA Coated Doxorubicin Loaded Zinc Ferrite Nanoparticles Against Liver Cancer
    Mohammed Mehadi Hassan Chowdhury - School of Medicine - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Novel aptamers against HER-2 for liquid biopsy
    Snehal Midge - School of Medicine - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Multi-Responsive Polymeric Biomaterials for Biomedical Applications
    Jianyang Zhao - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2021