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Hong Qian, Ph.D. General consultation on quantitative modeling of biological problems and applied mathematics. Specialty: NSR models on purine nucleotide, fractal analysis, stochastic approach to biochemical processes (protein folding, DNA supercoiling, motor protein mechanics), biochemical kinetics in physiology. email : hongq@bioeng.washington.edu |
Hong Qian (Q=CH), Professor of Applied Mathematics and Bioengineering, is responsible for biochemical and mathematical aspects of model development at NSR. He received a BA in Astrophysics from Peking University in China and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Washington University in St. Louis (with E.L. Elson). Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oregon (with J.A. Schellman) and Caltech (with J.J. Hopfield), on physical biochemistry and mathematical biology. Before coming to the University of Washington, he was an assistant professor of Biomathematics at the UCLA School of Medicine. From 1992-1994, he was a fellow with the Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology (PMMB), an NSF-funded multi-University consortium.
His main research interest is the quantitative approach to biochemical processes. In the past, he has worked on fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS), fluorescence photobleaching recovery (FPR), and single-particle tracking (SPT), protein folding, DNA supercoiling, and single-molecule biophysics, as well as mathematical modeling for enzyme kinetics, muscle mechanics, and cancer metastasis. His current research is focused on integrated physiology, particularly the energy metabolism in cells, muscle energetics, and theories of biochemical kinetics and control, and nanobiochemistry: the physics and chemistry of biological macromolecules down to nanometer size and piconewton force. His mathematical interest is in the area of stochastic processes including fractal analysis.
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