Yufeng Zhao, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest papers

Material-centric design of organ-on-a-chip systems: Towards industrial translation and mass manufacturing.
Advanced drug delivery reviews · 2026
Machine Learning Models for Local Optimization of Red Fluorescent Protein Variants in a Low-Data Setting.
Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026 · senior author
RAPID: evaluation of Cas12a protospacer nicking and chimeric reporters for PAM-independent RNA and DNA diagnostics.
Nucleic acids research · 2026

7 publications.

01

Material-centric design of organ-on-a-chip systems: Towards industrial translation and mass manufacturing.

Hernández-Castro JA, Lussier F, Malic L, Geissler M, Kim TH, Moon BU, Li K, Zhao Y, Clime L, Brassard D, Morton K, Veres T

Advanced drug delivery reviews2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2026.115945 PMID: 42580482

02

Machine Learning Models for Local Optimization of Red Fluorescent Protein Variants in a Low-Data Setting.

Ji R, Jung J, Cheng H, Xu EY, Wang A, Sit VM, Pardee K, Zhao Y

Journal of chemical information and modeling2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.6c00632 PMID: 42443100

03

RAPID: evaluation of Cas12a protospacer nicking and chimeric reporters for PAM-independent RNA and DNA diagnostics.

Iwe IA, Liu FX, Corsano A, da Silva SJR, Doucet J, Singh S, Lamothe G, Zayani R, Nguyen J, Matthews Q, Vigar JRJ, Bayat P, Simchi M, Bozovicar K, Charania M, Panfilov S, Kelly P, Cai R, Hubbard BP, Li X, Mazzulli T, Tremblay JP, Zhao Y, Green AA, Li Z, Yao S, Pardee K

Nucleic acids research2026

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkag748 PMID: 42549572

04

Bright calcium-modulated bioluminescent indicators for activity imaging and red photon-assisted synaptic transmission.

Zhao Y, Porta-de-la-Riva M, Lee S, Wu Y, Klein M, Hall MP, Su Y, Encell LP, Kirkland TA, Krieg M, Lin MZ

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026First author

DOI: 10.64898/2026.01.20.700092 PMID: 41648110

05

Novel Near-Infrared Fluorescent Protein for Biliverdin Biosensing with a Hydrogel Scaffold.

Zhao Y, Kim BB, Sit VM, Malic L, Veres T, Lin MZ

ACS sensors2025First author

DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.5c01191 PMID: 41247245

06

Far-red fluorescent genetically encoded calcium ion indicators.

Dalangin R, Jia BZ, Qi Y, Aggarwal A, Sakoi K, Drobizhev M, Molina RS, Patel R, Abdelfattah AS, Zheng J, Reep D, Hasseman JP, GENIE Project Team, Zhao Y, Wu J, Podgorski K, Tebo AG, Schreiter ER, Hughes TE, Terai T, Paquet ME, Megason SG, Cohen AE, Shen Y, Campbell RE

Nature communications2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58485-z PMID: 40195305

07

An Automated Centrifugal Microfluidic Platform for Efficient Multistep Blood Sample Preparation and Clean-Up towards Small Ion-Molecule Analysis.

Hou Y, Mishra R, Zhao Y, Ducrée J, Harrison JD

Micromachines2023

DOI: 10.3390/mi14122257 PMID: 38138426

Frequent collaborators

Biomolecular Sciences
Critical Care Medicine
Biochimie et microbiologie
Biomedical Engineering
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
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Keith Pardee

Biomolecular Sciences

2 shared papers, latest 2026

Teodor Veres

Critical Care Medicine

2 shared papers, latest 2026

Teodor Veres

Biomedical Engineering

1 shared papers, latest 2026

Tony Mazzulli

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology

1 shared papers, latest 2026

Marie-Eve Paquet

Biochimie et microbiologie

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Teodor Veres

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2026

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