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[1] the National Collegiate Inventors Award the NSFC Overseas Young Scholar Award
He is a pioneer of single-molecular SERS.[5] He is one of the pioneers of quantum dots for biomedical imaging.[6][7]
Recent publications
Shuming Nie. "Remembering Dr. Richard P. Van Duyne (1945–2019): Gentleman, Scholar, and Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Pioneer". ACS Nano 2020, 14(1), 26-27. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.9b09759
Wang, Jianquan; Lee, Gee Young; Lu, Qian; Peng, Xianghong; Wu, Jiangxiao; Wu, Siyuan; Kairdolf, Brad A.; Nie, Shuming; Wang, Yiqing; Lane, Lucas A. (3 May 2017). "Quantitative Examination of the Active Targeting Effect: The Key Factor for Maximal Tumor Accumulation and Retention of Short-Circulated Biopolymeric Nanocarriers". Bioconjugate Chemistry. 28 (5): 1351–1355. doi:10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.7b00138. PMID28448116.