Shuming Nie
Shuming Nie | |
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| Alma mater | Nankai University Northwestern University |
| Known for | Quantum dots Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy |
| Awards | Merck Award (2007) Elected Fellow of the American Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering (2006) Cheung Kong Professorship (The Ministry of Education of China, 2006) the Rank Prize in Opto-electronics (London, UK, 2005) the Georgia Distinguished Cancer Scholar Award (Georgia Cancer Coalition, 2002-2007) the Beckman Young Investigator Award the National Collegiate Inventors Award the NSFC Overseas Young Scholar Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biomedical Engineering, Nanotechnology |
| Institutions | Emory University |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard P. van Duyne |
| Other academic advisors | Richard Zare |
| Doctoral students | Warren Chan |
Shuming Nie (Chinese: 聂书明) is a Chinese-American chemist. He is the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was the Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering at Emory University. In 2007, Nie was elected as a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). In 2012, Nie was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
He is a pioneer of single-molecular SERS. He is one of the pioneers of quantum dots for biomedical imaging.