Shuming Nie


Shuming Nie 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. In 2012, Nie was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the [Advancement of Science].
He is a pioneer of single-molecular SERS. He is one of the pioneers of quantum dots for biomedical imaging.

Recent publications

  • Shuming Nie. "Remembering Dr. Richard P. Van Duyne : Gentleman, Scholar, and Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Pioneer". ACS Nano 2020, 14, 26-27. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.9b09759
  • Warren C. W. Chan, Shuming Nie. Quantum Dot Bioconjugates for Ultrasensitive Nonisotopic Detection. Science 1998. 281: 2016-2018.https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.275.5303.1102
  • Shuming Nie, Steven R. Emory. Probing Single Molecules and Single Nanoparticles by Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering. Science 1997. 275: 1102-1106. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.275.5303.1102