Yanmei Ma

Southern University of Science and Technology

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Yanmei Ma is a pioneer at the intersection of nanorobotics and cellular bioanalysis, whose work is redefining how we probe and manipulate living cells with unprecedented precision. Her primary research areas span robotic intracellular sensing, label-free cellular surgery, and advanced optical patterning of nanomaterials. Ma’s landmark contribution is the development of a robotic nanopipette platform for intracellular electrochemical sensing in adherent cells—a technique that automates the observation of biochemical processes to reveal cellular heterogeneity for early disease diagnosis, with her foundational 2022 paper garnering 43 citations. She further advanced the field by introducing a label-free robotic mitochondrial biopsy method in 2025, which overcomes the photodamage and cytotoxicity of fluorescent techniques, enabling minimally invasive intracellular operations for downstream analyses. Beyond cellular probing, Ma has innovated in materials science by demonstrating how to pattern semiconductor nanoparticles using light to modulate surface charges—a scalable, cost-effective approach for multiscale functional structures without high-intensity lasers. Her work, already accumulating over 67 citations, is notable for bridging robotics and nanomedicine, offering tools that promise to transform both fundamental cell biology and clinical diagnostics.