Shirley Tang

Associate Dean of Science, Professor | Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science

Shirley Tang is a professor and associate dean of science at the University of Waterloo. She carries out research in nanotechnology. Central to her effort is the creation of materials and devices based on graphene, carbon nanotubes, and their chemical derivatives, primarily for biomedical applications. Her research interests encompass nanomaterials and nanodevices for biology and medicine, biomolecule assisted nanomaterial self-assembly, and the health and environmental effects of engineered nanomaterials. Her lab is equipped with state-of-the-art instruments tailored for nanocarbon-based synthesis and characterization and a biosafety II cell culture lab dedicated to the investigation of nanocarbon-biosystem interactions. 

Selected Publications:

• Wang, Yuxing, Irfani R. Ausri, Zimeng Wang, Cam Derry, and Xiaowu Shirley Tang. "Towards a transdermal membrane biosensor for the detection of lactate in body fluids." Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 308 (2020): 127645. 
• Lee, Junmin, Vijayan Manoharan, Louis Cheung, Seungkyu Lee, Byung-Hyun Cha, Peter Newman, Razieh Farzad et al. "Nanoparticle-Based Hybrid Scaffolds for Deciphering the Role of Multimodal Cues in Cardiac Tissue Engineering." ACS nano 13, no. 11 (2019): 12525-12539. 
• Li, Zhi, Yael Zilberman, Qing-Bin Lu, and Xiaowu Tang. "Electrochemical methods for probing DNA damage mechanisms and designing cisplatin-based combination chemotherapy." BioTechniques 66, no. 3 (2019): 135-142.Wang, Kai, Irfani R. Ausri, Kyle A. Chu, Annela Seddon, and Xiaowu Tang. "Pressure‐Driven Solvent Transport and Complex Ion Permeation through Graphene Oxide Membranes." Advanced Materials Interfaces 6, no. 12 (2019): 1802056.