Manzar Abbas, PhD

​Dr. Manzar Abbas’s research focusses on the synthesis of functional short peptides, supramolecular chemistry, light based cancer treatment like photodynamic and photo-thermal therapy. His research is interdisciplinary as best combination of Chemistry, Nanotechnology, Nanomedicine and Material Science, and potential application in stimuli responsive drug delivery and third generation -based nanomaterials for diagnostic and phototherapies.

• Self-assembled peptide-based hydrogels for intratumoral delivery of photosensitizers and photodynamic therapy
  M. Abbas, R. Xing, N. Zhang, Q. Zou, X. Yan
  ACS Applied materials and interfaces (In Press)


• Self-assembly of biomimetic light-harvesting complexes capable of hydrogen evolution
  K. Liu, M. Abbas, Q. Zou, X. Yan
  Green Energy & Environment, 2, 58-63, 2017


• ​Self-assembled peptide- and protein-based nanomaterials for antitumor photodynamic and photothermal therapy
  M. Abbas, Q. Zou, S. Li, and X. Yan
  Advanced Materials Wiley, 29, 1605021, 2017


• Biological photothermal nanodots based on self-assembly of peptide-porphyrin conjugates for antitumor therapy
  Q. Zou, M. Abbas, L. Zhao, S. Li, G. Shen, and X. Yan
  Journal of American Chemical Society, 139, 1921−1927, 2017


• Peptide-modulated self-assembly of chromophores toward biomimetic light-harvesting nanoarchitectonics
  Q. Zou, K. Liu, M. Abbas, and X. Yan
  Advanced Materials Wiley, 28, 1031–1043, 2016


• One-step nanoengineering of hydrophobic photosensitive drugs for the photodynamic therapy
  C. Zhou, M. Abbas, M. Zhang, Q. Zou, G. Shen, Ch. Chen, H. Peng, and X. Yan
  Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 15, 10141–10148, 2015

• ​Ph.D., Material Sciences/Applied Chemistry, Institute of Process Engineering, CAS, Beijing, China, 2017
• M.Phil., Chemistry, Bauddin Zakaryia University, Multan, Punjab Pakistan 2013
• M.Sc., Chemistry Bauddin Zakaryia University, Multan, Punjab Pakistan 201

• ​2017 - Present: Postdoctoral fellow, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

• ​Member of CAS Chemical Society

• ​UCAS Scholarship for PhD 2014-2017
• CAS Excellent International Student Award 2016
• CAS Excellent International Graduate Award 2017

• ​Computational Bioscience Research Center
• Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division