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Last published 2026
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Qingyang Zhang

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17 h-index 82 pubs 1,562 cited

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  • Humans
  • Animals
  • Mice
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
  • Liver Neoplasms
  • Neoplasms
  • Male
  • Tumor Microenvironment
  • Computer Simulation
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Female
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Biomarkers, Tumor
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Middle Aged

Biography and Research Information

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Qingyang Zhang's research focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying disease, with recent work exploring the role of RNA modifications and metabolic factors in health and disease. Zhang has investigated the impact of N6-methyladenosine (m6A) RNA modification on antiviral innate sensing pathways and its role in regulating liver metabolic disorders and hepatogenous diabetes. Further studies have examined how the histone methyltransferase MMSET/NSD2 influences the myeloma epigenome and how a novel m6A reader, Prrc2a, controls oligodendroglial specification and myelination.

In addition to molecular and genetic studies, Zhang's work has also delved into the mechanobiology of cells and tissues. Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), Zhang has served as PI on grants investigating the mechanobiology of 3D morphogenesis, multicellular morphogenesis, and cellular contractility. These projects aim to understand how mechanical forces influence biological processes, including invasive diseases. Collaborations include work with Jeffrey A. Lewis, Stephanie E. Hood, Carson Stacy, and Tara Stuecker at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Zhang's research portfolio also includes studies on predicting mortality risk using metabolic scores, as demonstrated by a recent publication on the METS-IR score and its association with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. With a career h-index of 17 and over 1,500 citations across 82 publications, Zhang has secured substantial federal funding, totaling over $7.3 million for various research endeavors.

Metrics

  • h-index: 17
  • Publications: 82
  • Citations: 1,562

Selected Publications

  • Factors Associated with Psychological Constructs: A Conditional Inference Tree Analysis (2026)
    Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences DOI OpenAlex
  • Classification-based genomic prediction for early identification of high-yielding and stable soybean genotypes (2026)
    Frontiers in Plant Science DOI OpenAlex
  • Categorical Distance Correlation Under General Encodings and its Application to High-Dimensional Feature Screening (2026)
    Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice DOI OpenAlex
  • Differential Drivers of Psychological Constructs: A Conditional Inference Tree Analysis (2026)
    Preprints.org DOI OpenAlex
  • A Note on Distance Variance for Categorical Variables (2026)
    Statistical Science DOI OpenAlex
  • On the connections between Chatterjee's correlation and rank distance correlation (2025)
    Journal of nonparametric statistics DOI OpenAlex
  • On the asymptotic distributions of some test statistics for two‐way contingency tables (2025)
    Statistica Neerlandica DOI OpenAlex
  • Effect of Ipomoeassin F on the Synthesis of Membrane and Secretory Proteins in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells (2025)
    ACS Omega DOI OpenAlex
  • On the extensions of the Chatterjee-Spearman test (2025)
    Journal of nonparametric statistics 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • On the properties of distance covariance for categorical data: Robustness, sure screening, and approximate null distributions (2025)
    Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Asymptotic expected sensitivity function and its applications to measures of monotone association (2024)
    Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Proteomic analysis reveals the dominant effect of ipomoeassin F on the synthesis of membrane and secretory proteins in triple-negative breast cancer cells (2024)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) DOI OpenAlex

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Federal Grants 5 $7,342,165 total

NIH Contact PI Sep 2025 - Jun 2030

Investigating the mechanobiology of multicellular morphogenesis

National Institute of General Medical Sciences $364,581 R35
NIH Contact PI Aug 2023 - Jul 2027

Sorting and characterization of mechanically heterogeneous cell populations based on cellular contractility

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering $182,290 R21
NIH Contact PI Sep 2022 - Aug 2025

Developing branch stress microscopy for the mechanobiology of 3D morphogenesis and invasive diseases

National Institute of General Medical Sciences $190,629 R21
NSF PI Sep 2026 - Aug 2031

CAREER: Linking Mechanical Forces and Energy Flow in Collective Cell Migration

BMMB-Biomech & Mechanobiology, CAREER: FACULTY EARLY CAR DEV $504,665
NSF Co-PI Sep 2021 - Aug 2026

BII: Host-Virus Evolutionary Dynamics Institute (HVEDI)

Cross-BIO Activities $6,100,000

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43 Collaborators 13 Institutions 3 Countries

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