Lang Rao

13.1k total citations · 11 hit papers
137 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

Lang Rao is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lang Rao has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 63 papers in Molecular Biology and 37 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Lang Rao's work include Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (64 papers), Extracellular vesicles in disease (28 papers) and Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (18 papers). Lang Rao is often cited by papers focused on Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (64 papers), Extracellular vesicles in disease (28 papers) and Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (18 papers). Lang Rao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Lang Rao's co-authors include Xiaoyuan Chen, Wei Liu, Shishang Guo, Xingzhong Zhao, Lin‐Lin Bu, Bo Cai, Guocan Yu, Zhi‐Jun Sun, Qian‐Fang Meng and Wen‐Feng Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Lang Rao

130 papers receiving 10.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Macrophages in immunoregulation and therapeutics

2023 1.1k citations Lang Rao et al. profile →
Engineering Macrophages for Cancer Immunotherapy and Drug Delivery

2020 711 citations Lang Rao, Xiaoyuan Chen et al. profile →
Cancer Cell Membrane‐Coated Upconversion Nanoprobes for Highly Specific Tumor Imaging

2016 475 citations Lang Rao, Lin‐Lin Bu et al. profile →
Microfluidic Electroporation-Facilitated Synthesis of Erythrocyte Membrane-Coated Magnetic Nanoparticles for Enhanced Imaging-Guided Cancer Therapy

2017 470 citations Lang Rao, Bo Cai et al. ACS Nano profile →
Red Blood Cell Membrane as a Biomimetic Nanocoating for Prolonged Circulation Time and Reduced Accelerated Blood Clearance

2015 431 citations Lang Rao, Lin‐Lin Bu et al. profile →
Supramolecular cancer nanotheranostics

2021 345 citations Lang Rao, Guocan Yu et al. profile →
Hybrid cellular membrane nanovesicles amplify macrophage immune responses against cancer recurrence and metastasis

2020 307 citations Lang Rao, Lei Wu et al. Nature Communications profile →
Harnessing Nanomaterials for Cancer Sonodynamic Immunotherapy

2023 175 citations Shuang Liang, Lang Rao et al. profile →
Extracellular vesicles: a rising star for therapeutics and drug delivery

2023 161 citations Lang Rao et al. profile →
Designing nanotheranostics with machine learning

2024 91 citations Lang Rao, Guocan Yu et al. profile →
Neutrophil Membrane‐Camouflaged Polyprodrug Nanomedicine for Inflammation Suppression in Ischemic Stroke Therapy

2024 66 citations Chenchen Zhao, Lang Rao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lang Rao China	48	5.7k	4.2k	2.7k	2.3k	1.5k	137	10.4k
Haifa Shen United States	46	4.4k 0.8×	5.6k 1.3×	4.4k 1.6×	1.4k 0.6×	1.7k 1.1×	125	11.6k
Chun Li United States	60	6.6k 1.2×	3.8k 0.9×	4.0k 1.5×	1.4k 0.6×	3.0k 2.0×	255	13.3k
Na Zhang China	57	3.0k 0.5×	4.9k 1.2×	3.0k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	460	12.2k
Michael J. Mitchell United States	52	5.5k 1.0×	8.2k 2.0×	3.8k 1.4×	3.4k 1.5×	1.5k 1.0×	164	16.8k
Yucai Wang China	67	6.9k 1.2×	4.3k 1.0×	5.1k 1.9×	1.1k 0.5×	3.6k 2.4×	249	14.3k
Arun K. Iyer United States	49	3.2k 0.6×	4.4k 1.0×	3.6k 1.3×	1.1k 0.5×	941 0.6×	131	9.9k
Andrew Z. Wang United States	60	7.3k 1.3×	5.4k 1.3×	6.8k 2.5×	1.6k 0.7×	2.8k 1.9×	268	16.2k
Yinlong Zhang China	46	4.1k 0.7×	4.0k 1.0×	2.6k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	93	8.4k
Wen Jiang China	55	3.3k 0.6×	3.2k 0.8×	2.3k 0.8×	2.4k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	269	11.0k
Haihua Xiao China	52	4.5k 0.8×	3.2k 0.8×	3.2k 1.2×	765 0.3×	2.8k 1.9×	175	9.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lang Rao

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Yun, Kaiqing, Shuang Liang, Qingling Wang, et al.. (2025). Tumor-responsive cuproptosis nanoinducer realizing efficient PANoptosis for enhanced cancer immunotherapy. Theranostics. 15(17). 9294–9305.

Liu, Lujie, Baikui Wang, Yuanwei Pan, et al.. (2025). Yogurt-inspired hybrid membrane vesicles for the prevention and treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection. 1(4). 100072–100072. 5 indexed citations

Liao, Yifang, et al.. (2024). Genetically engineered cellular nanoparticles loaded with curcuminoids for cancer immunotherapy. Theranostics. 14(16). 6409–6425. 3 indexed citations

Lai, Jialin, Qi Pan, Guihao Chen, et al.. (2024). Triple Hybrid Cellular Nanovesicles Promote Cardiac Repair after Ischemic Reperfusion. ACS Nano. 18(5). 4443–4455. 30 indexed citations

Wu, Jicheng, Hailin Lu, Ximing Xu, Lang Rao, & Yun Ge. (2024). Engineered Cellular Vesicles Displaying Glycosylated Nanobodies for Cancer Immunotherapy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(44). e202404889–e202404889. 10 indexed citations

Pan, Yuanwei, Lujie Liu, Yangtao Xu, et al.. (2024). Genetically Edited Cascade Nanozymes for Cancer Immunotherapy. ACS Nano. 18(19). 12295–12310. 48 indexed citations

Meng, Qian‐Fang, Wanbo Tai, Mingyao Tian, et al.. (2023). Inhalation delivery of dexamethasone with iSEND nanoparticles attenuates the COVID-19 cytokine storm in mice and nonhuman primates. Science Advances. 9(24). eadg3277–eadg3277. 76 indexed citations

Tan, Dehong, Wenxiang Zhu, Lujie Liu, et al.. (2023). In situ formed scaffold with royal jelly-derived extracellular vesicles for wound healing. Theranostics. 13(9). 2811–2824. 34 indexed citations

Rao, Lang, Lei Wu, Zhida Liu, et al.. (2020). Hybrid cellular membrane nanovesicles amplify macrophage immune responses against cancer recurrence and metastasis. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4909–4909. 307 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wei, Xiaoyun, Keke Chen, Bo Cai, et al.. (2019). An Acoustic Droplet-Induced Enzyme Responsive Platform for the Capture and On-Demand Release of Single Circulating Tumor Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(44). 41118–41126. 35 indexed citations

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Meng, Qian‐Fang, Yanxiang Cheng, Qinqin Huang, et al.. (2019). Biomimetic Immunomagnetic Nanoparticles with Minimal Nonspecific Biomolecule Adsorption for Enhanced Isolation of Circulating Tumor Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(32). 28732–28739. 57 indexed citations

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Zan, Minghui, Cong Li, Daoming Zhu, et al.. (2019). A novel “on–off–on” fluorescence assay for the discriminative detection of Cu(ii) and l-cysteine based on red-emissive Si-CDs and cellular imaging applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 8(5). 919–927. 43 indexed citations

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Xie, Wei, Wei‐Wei Deng, Minghui Zan, et al.. (2019). Cancer Cell Membrane Camouflaged Nanoparticles to Realize Starvation Therapy Together with Checkpoint Blockades for Enhancing Cancer Therapy. ACS Nano. 13(3). 2849–2857. 305 indexed citations

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Liu, Huiqin, Zheng Ao, Bo Cai, et al.. (2018). Size-amplified acoustofluidic separation of circulating tumor cells with removable microbeads. Nano Futures. 2(2). 25004–25004. 27 indexed citations

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Meng, Qian‐Fang, Lang Rao, Minghui Zan, et al.. (2018). Macrophage membrane-coated iron oxide nanoparticles for enhanced photothermal tumor therapy. Nanotechnology. 29(13). 134004–134004. 114 indexed citations

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Wei, Xiaoyun, Zheng Ao, Lin Cheng, et al.. (2018). Highly sensitive and rapid isolation of fetal nucleated red blood cells with microbead-based selective sedimentation for non-invasive prenatal diagnostics. Nanotechnology. 29(43). 434001–434001. 21 indexed citations

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Rao, Lang, Qian‐Fang Meng, Qinqin Huang, et al.. (2018). Platelet–Leukocyte Hybrid Membrane‐Coated Immunomagnetic Beads for Highly Efficient and Highly Specific Isolation of Circulating Tumor Cells. Advanced Functional Materials. 28(34). 208 indexed citations

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Rao, Lang, Wenbiao Wang, Qian‐Fang Meng, et al.. (2018). A Biomimetic Nanodecoy Traps Zika Virus To Prevent Viral Infection and Fetal Microcephaly Development. Nano Letters. 19(4). 2215–2222. 66 indexed citations

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Rao, Lang, Qian‐Fang Meng, Lin‐Lin Bu, et al.. (2017). Erythrocyte Membrane-Coated Upconversion Nanoparticles with Minimal Protein Adsorption for Enhanced Tumor Imaging. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(3). 2159–2168. 215 indexed citations

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Rao, Lang, Bo Cai, Lin‐Lin Bu, et al.. (2017). Microfluidic Electroporation-Facilitated Synthesis of Erythrocyte Membrane-Coated Magnetic Nanoparticles for Enhanced Imaging-Guided Cancer Therapy. ACS Nano. 11(4). 3496–3505. 470 indexed citations breakdown →

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