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Last published 2026
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Qingfang He

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Federal Grant PI

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Faculty Researcher

11 h-index 52 pubs 560 cited

  • Humans
  • Female
  • Male
  • China
  • Middle Aged
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Light
  • Risk Factors
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Bacterial Proteins
  • Photosynthesis
  • Synechocystis
  • Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes
  • Hypertension

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Qingfang He's research focuses on public health and disease mechanisms, with a particular emphasis on cardiovascular and metabolic health in Chinese populations. He has investigated the association between metabolic syndrome severity and cardiovascular disease in adults, and explored the relationship between diabetes and thyroid cancer risk through hospital-based case-control studies.

His work also delves into genetic factors influencing health outcomes, as seen in a prospective study examining the aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 gene's association with cardio-cerebrovascular complications in type 2 diabetes patients. He has also studied taste preferences for salt as a predictor of salt intake in a Chinese population. His research group is also funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for work on cyanobacterial enzymes and strains for organophosphonate removal.

He has authored over 50 publications, accumulating more than 500 citations and an h-index of 11. His collaborations include researchers from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He has served as PI on an NSF grant totaling $50,000 for research on cyanobacterial enzymes.

Metrics

  • h-index: 11
  • Publications: 52
  • Citations: 560

Selected Publications

  • Environmental Pressure Drives the Acquisition of Aetokthonotoxin Genes: A Bioinformatic Study of Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy Origin (2026)
    Research Square DOI OpenAlex
  • Cytotoxicity and genotoxicity of glyphosate and Roundup Quickpro on Chinese hamster ovary cells (2025)
    Scientific Reports DOI OpenAlex
  • Phylogenetic analysis of microbial CP-lyase cluster genes for bioremediation of phosphonate (2025)
    AMB Express 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Cytotoxicity and Genotoxicity of Glyphosate and Roundup on Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells (2024)
    SSRN Electronic Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • Cyanobacteria as a photosynthetic factory for the production of natural and synthetic compounds (2023)
    Elsevier eBooks DOI OpenAlex
  • An Automated Approach to Synechocystis Cell Analysis in TEM Image Datasets (2023)
    Microscopy and Microanalysis DOI OpenAlex
  • Escherichia coli AraJ boosts utilization of arabinose in metabolically engineered cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (2021)
    AMB Express 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Response of the microbial community to phosphate-solubilizing bacterial inoculants on Ulmus chenmoui Cheng in Eastern China (2021)
    PLoS ONE 31 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Iron Deficiency in Cyanobacteria (2020)
  • Diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in rhizosphere soils of the Chinese medicinal herb Sophora flavescens Ait (2019)
    Soil and Tillage Research 35 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Activation of the Oxidative Pentose Phosphate Pathway is Critical for Photomixotrophic Growth of a <i>hik33</i> ‐Deletion Mutant of <i>Synechocystis</i> sp. PCC 6803 (2018)
    PROTEOMICS 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Synthetic Biology Approaches to the Sustainable Production of p-Coumaric Acid and Its Derivatives in Cyanobacteria (2018)
    Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Secure Privacy Preserving across Personal Health Data and Single Cell Genomics Research INSPIRE Academic Pedagogy — Merging Big Data Multiplatform with Deep Learning (2017)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Functional Expression of the Arachis hypogaea L. Acyl-ACP Thioesterases AhFatA and AhFatB Enhances Fatty Acid Production in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 (2017)
    Energies 12 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Federal Grants 1 $50,000 total

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16 Collaborators 5 Institutions 2 Countries

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