1987年获湖南大学分析化学博士学位。

1989-1991年在瑞士苏黎世联邦高等理工学院(ETH)进行博士后研究;1991年回湖南大学任教,1992年晋升为湖南大学教授。

国家自然科学基金委化学科学部专家咨询委员会委员(2008至今)、专家评审组成员(2010年至今)、湖南大学学术委员会学风与学术道德委员会主任、化学生物传感与计量学国家重点实验室(湖南大学)学术委员会副主任、英国皇家化学会《The Analyst》杂志顾问编委、美国《Current Proteomics》杂志编委，《高等学校化学学报》副主编、《中国化学快报》副主编。

先后承担国家“ 973” 子项目、“ 863” 项目、国家科技攻关计划项目、科技部国际合作重点项目、国家自然科学基金重大项目、重点项目、教育部重大项目等30余项。

在Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA、J. Am. Chem. Soc.、Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.、ACS Nano、Adv. Funct. Mater.、 Nucleic Acids Res.、Chem. Commun.、Anal. Chem.、Biomaterials等国际知名杂志、国内外核心学术刊物及重要的国际学术会议上发表论文300余篇。

1. Dinggeng He, Xiaoxiao He, Kemin Wang*, Jie Cao, Yingxiang Zhao. " A photon-fueled gate-like delivery system using i-motif DNA functionalized mesoporous silica nanoparticles" , Adv. Funct. Mater., 22 (22) (2012), 4704-4710.

2. Jianbo Liu, Xiaohai Yang, Kemin Wang*, Xiaoxiao He, Qing Wang, Jin Huang, and Yan Liu. " Aggregation control of quantum dots through ion-mediated hydrogen bonding shielding" , ACS Nano, 6 (6) (2012), 4973-4983.

3. Xiaoxiao He, Yushuang Wang, Kemin Wang*, Mian Chen, Suye Chen. " Fluorescence resonance energy transfer mediated large stokes shifting near-infrared fluorescent silica nanoparticles for in vivo small-animal imaging" , Anal. Chem., 84 (21) (2012), 9056-9064.

4. Qing Wang, Lijuan Yang, Xiaohai Yang, Kemin Wang*, Leiliang He, Jinqing Zhu, Tianyuan Su. " An electrochemical DNA biosensor based on the ‘ ‘ Y’ ’ junction structure and restriction endonuclease-aided target recycling strategy" , Chem. Commun., (48) (2012), 2982-2984.

5. Jianbo Liu, Xiaohai Yang, Kemin Wang*, Qing Wang, Haining Ji, Chunlei Wu, Jing Li, Xiaoxiao He, Jinlu Tang, Jin Huang. " Combining physical embedding and covalent bonding for stable encapsulation of quantum dots into agarose hydrogels" , J. Mater. Chem., 22 (2) (2012), 495-501.

6. Jin Huang, Yanrong Wu, Yan Chen, Zhi Zhu, Xiaohai Yang, Chaoyong James Yang*, Kemin Wang*, Weihong Tan*. " Pyrene-excimer probes based on the hybridization chain reaction for the detection of nucleic acids in complex biological fluids" , Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50 (2) (2011), 401-404.

7. Jianbo Liu, Xiaohai Yang, Kemin Wang*, Ronghua Yang, Haining Ji, Liyan Yang, Chunlei Wu. " A switchable fluorescent quantum dot probe based on aggregation/disaggregation mechanism" , Chem. Commun., 47 (3) (2011), 935-937.

8. Zhiwen Tang, Pei Liu, Changbei Ma, Xiaohai Yang, Kemin Wang*, Weihong Tan, Xiaoyuan Lv. “ Molecular beacon based bioassay for highly sensitive and selective detection of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide and the activity of alanine aminotransferase” , Anal. Chem., 83 (7) (2011), 2505-2510.

9. Hui Shi, Xiaoxiao He, Kemin Wang*, Xu Wu, Xiaosheng Ye, Qiuping Guo, Weihong Tan, Zhihe Qing, Xiaohai Yang, Bing Zhou. " Activatable aptamer probe for contrast-enhanced in vivo cancer imaging based on cell membrane protein-triggered conformation alteration" , Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 108 (10) (2011), 3900-3905.

10. Dinggeng He, Xiaoxiao He, Kemin Wang*, Mian Chen, Jie Cao, Yingxiang Zhao. " Reversible stimuli-responsive controlled release using mesoporous silica nanoparticles functionalized with a smart DNA molecule-gated switch" , J. Mater. Chem., 22 (29) (2012), 14715-14721.

11. Zhiwen Tang, Pei Liu, Changbei Ma, Xiaohai Yang, Kemin Wang*, Weihong Tan, Xiaoyuan Lv. “ Molecular beacon based bioassay for highly sensitive and selective detection of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide and the activity of alanine aminotransferase” , Anal. Chem., 83 (7) (2011), 2505-2510.

12. Hui Shi, Xiaoxiao He, Yuan Yuan, Kemin Wang*, Dan Liu. " Nanoparticle-based biocompatible and long-life marker for lysosome labeling and tracking" , Analytical Chemistry, 2010, 82(6), 2213-2220.

13. Kemin Wang*, Zhiwen Tang, Chaoyong James Yang, Youngmi Kim, Xiaohong Fang, Wei Li, Yanrong Wu, Colin D. Medley, Zehui Cao, Jun Li, Patrick Colon, Hui Lin, Weihong Tan*. " Molecular engineering of DNA: Molecular beacons" , Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2009, 48(5), 856-870.

14. Qiuping Guo, Xiaohai Yang, Kemin Wang*, Weihong Tan, Wei Li, Hongxing Tang, Huimin Li. " Sensitive fluorescence detection of nucleic acids based on isothermal circular strand-displacement polymerization reaction" , Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, 37(3), e20.

15. Xiaoxiao He, Hailong Nie, Kemin Wang*, Weihong Tan, Xu Wu, Pengfei Zhang. “ In vivo study of biodistribution and urinary excretion of surface-modified silica nanoparticles” , Analytical Chemistry, 2008, 80(24), 9597-9603.

16. Liu Yang, Huimin Li, Kemin Wang*, Weihong Tan, Wenjuan Yang, Jing Zheng. “ Atomic force microscopy study of the effect of pulsed electric field on staphylococcus epidermidis” , Analytical Chemistry, 2008, 80(16), 6222-6227.

17. Wei Li, Xiaohai Yang, Kemin Wang*, Weihong Tan, Yan He, Qiuping Guo, Hongxing Tang, Jianbo Liu. “ Real-time imaging of protein internalization using aptamer conjugates” , Analytical Chemistry, 2008, 80(13), 5002-5008.

18. Hongmei Huang, Kemin Wang*, Weihong Tan, Delie An, Xiaohai Yang, Shasheng Huang, Qiuge Zhai, Leiji Zhou, Yan Jin. “ Design of a modular-based fluorescent conjugated polymer for selective sensing” , Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2004, 43(42), 5635-5638.

19. Xiaoxiao He, Kemin Wang*, Weihong. Tan, B. Liu, Xia Lin, Chunmei. He, Du Li, Shasheng Huang, Jun Li. “ Bioconjugated nanoparticles for DNA protection from cleavage” , Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2003, 125(24), 7168-7169.

已获得发明专利授权40余项。

获国家自然科学二等奖(2011)、湖南省自然科学一等奖(2009)、湖南省科技进步一等奖(2003)等奖项。

湖南大学生物纳米技术方向985首席科学家，1998年度国家***基金获得者。