女，1982年3月出生，副教授，硕士生导师。2009年6月博士毕业于华中师范大学化学学院农药与化学生物学教育部重点实验室。2009年7月进入华中农业大学理学院任教，主持国家自然科学基金一项，校自主创新基金三项；参与了国家自然科学基金、国家“973”前期项目和教育部新世纪人才计划等项目的研究。主要研究方向为新杂环农药、医药的设计合成及天然活性物结构衍生化。在国际性期刊J.Agric.FoodChem.、Bioorg.Med.Chem.Lett.、Pest.Biochem.Physiol.、Tetrahedron等杂志上发表SCI学术论文20余篇，授权发明专利一项。副主编和参编教材2部。

E-mail:caoxiufang@mail.hzau.edu.cn

代表性论文：

1.XiaohuiWang,HaihuanSu,ChangshuiChenandXiufangCao*,SynthesisandBiologicalEvaluationofPeptidomimeticsContainingTryptamineMoietyasPotentialAntitumorAgents.RSCAdvances.,5，15597-15602,2015.

2.ShengzhenXu,HuangyongLi,XiaohuiWang,ChangshuiChen,MinhuiCao,XiufangCao*,Asymmetricsynthesesandbio-evaluationofnovelchiralestersderivedfromsubstitutedtetrafluorobenzylalcohol,Bioorg.Med.Chem.Lett.,24,2734-2736,2014.

3.ZengjunWei,ChangshuiChen,LibinShi,JingnanJin,QingyeZhang,ShengzhenXu,XiufangCao*,XialiYue*,NovelN-nitroacetamidederivativesderivedfrom2,4-D:Design,synthesis,bioevaluation,andpredictionofmechanismofaction,Pestic.Biochem.Phys.,106,68-74,2013.

4.ShaoweiLi,HuangyongLi,ChangshuiChen,XialiYue,XiufangCao*,ShaoyongKe,Novelaroylhydrazine-amidederivativesbearingpyridinecore:Synthesis,characterizationsandselectivecolorimetricrecognitionproperties,Supramol.Chem.,25,384-392,2013.

5.ShaoweiLi,XiufangCao*,ChangshuiChen,ShaoyongKe,Novelsalicylicacid-orientedthiourea-typereceptorsascolorimetricchemosensor:Synthesis,characterizationsandselectivenaked-eyerecognitionproperties,Spectrochim.ActaPartA,96,18-23,2012.

6.XiufangCao,ShengzhenXu,XuegangLi,XiaoxiaShen,QingyeZhang,JianhongLi,ChangshuiChen,N-NitroureaderivativesasnovelpotentialfungicidesagainstRhizoctoniasolani:Synthesis,antifungalactivitiesand3D-QSAR,Chem.Biol.DrugDes.,80,81-89,2012.

7.ShaoyongKe,XiufangCao*,YingLiang,KaimeiWang,ZiwenYang,Synthesisandbiologicalpropertiesofdihydro-oxadiazine-basedheterocyclicderivatives,Mini-Rev.Med.Chem.,11,642-657,2011.

8.XiufangCao,ChangshuiChen,WenchangLu,ShaoyongKe,Chiralβ-arylalkyl-1H-1,2,4-triazolesasdemethylaseinhibitors:Biologicalevaluationanditsstereoselectiveinteractionwithsterol14α-demethylasefromPenicilliumdigitatum,Pestic.Biochem.Phys.,99,189-193,2011.

9.XiufangCao,MingHu,JieZhang,FeiLi,DeliLiu,ShenghuaLiu,Determinationofstereo-selectiveinteractionbetweenenantiomersofchiralγ-aryl-1H-1,2,4-triazolederivativesandPenicilliumdigitatum,J.Agric.FoodChem.2009,57,6914.

10.XiufangCao,FeiLi,MingHu,WenchangLu,Guang-AoYu,ShenghuaLiu,Chiralγ-aryl-1H-1,2,4-triazolederivativesashighlypotentialantifungalagents:design,synthesis,structureandinvitrofungicidalactivities,J.Agric.FoodChem.2008,56,11367.

11.XiufangCao,FangLiu,WenchangLu,GangChen,Guang-AoYu,ShenghuaLiu,Regio-anddiastereoselectiveconjugateadditionofGrignardreagentstoarylsubstitutedα,β-unsaturatedcarbonylcompoundsderivedfromOppolzer’ssultam,Tetrahedron2008,64,5629.

12.曹秀芳，李皇勇，韩勰，汪淼，徐胜臻，陈长水.一种拟除虫菊酯化合物及其制备方法与应用，2013.9,中国,CN2013101955227.