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About
Dr. Lina Jia is pioneering the frontier of medical microrobotics, with her research centered on the precise magnetic control of biohybrid and nanoparticle-based robots for targeted cancer therapy. Her most significant contribution is the development of "cell robots"—living macrophages loaded with magnetic nanoparticles—that leverage the cells' natural tumor-homing ability for minimally invasive drug delivery. Her landmark 2021 paper on this topic, published in *Small*, has garnered 89 citations and demonstrates a paradigm shift from synthetic 3D-printed robots to biocompatible, cell-based systems. Dr. Jia has also engineered reconfigurable paramagnetic nanoparticle swarms capable of upstream motility against blood flow, a critical breakthrough for navigating the complex human circulatory system. Her work on ferrofluid-based millirobots for photothermal therapy in the NIR-II window further expands the therapeutic toolkit. With over 200 total citations and multiple first-author publications in high-impact journals, Dr. Jia is establishing herself as a leading voice in translating microrobotics from in vitro precision to in vivo clinical reality, addressing the grand challenge of biocompatibility and targeted control.
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- 5A method for grasp detection of flexible four-finger gripper8 citations · 2024
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- 8Precise Control of Magnetic Nano Particle Formed Microrobot Cluster6 citations · 2021
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