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.^[2] In 2007, Nie was elected as a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).^[3] In 2012, Nie was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).^[4]

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. PMID 28448116.
• Keating, Jane J.; Runge, Jeffrey J.; Singhal, Sunil; Nims, Sarah; Venegas, Ollin; Durham, Amy C.; Swain, Gary; Nie, Shuming; Low, Philip S.; Holt, David E. (15 May 2017). "Intraoperative near-infrared fluorescence imaging targeting folate receptors identifies lung cancer in a large-animal model". Cancer. 123 (6): 1051–1060. doi:10.1002/cncr.30419. PMC 5341137. PMID 28263385.
• Lee, John Y. K.; Pierce, John T.; Thawani, Jayesh P.; Zeh, Ryan; Nie, Shuming; Martinez-Lage, Maria; Singhal, Sunil (7 April 2017). "Near-infrared fluorescent image-guided surgery for intracranial meningioma". Journal of Neurosurgery. 128 (2): 380–390. doi:10.3171/2016.10.JNS161636. PMID 28387632.
• Warren C. W. Chan, Shuming Nie. Quantum Dot Bioconjugates for Ultrasensitive Nonisotopic Detection. Science 1998. 281(5385): 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(5303): 1102-1106. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.275.5303.1102