
Jingyi Liang
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Pharmacy, UiT – Arctic University of Norway
My main research focuses on developing mathematical models that improve our understanding of drug action in bacterial infections, particularly tuberculosis (TB). Drug resistance is a major challenge and threat to the global control of TB, and new drugs and regimens are urgently needed. Mathematical modeling can be used to predict optimal dosing strategies and therefore potentially shorten the development cycle for new drugs. I am interested in using mathematical models to study the relationship between chemical reaction kinetics of antibiotics and the dynamics of bacterial populations in patients. This will be useful in optimizing dosing regimens for trials of new TB drugs and preventing relapse.
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Antibiotics
2012-2017
PhD in Computational Systems Biology
Department of Wine, Food, and Molecular Biosciences
Lincoln University, New Zealand
2013-2018
Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Science
Department of Wine, Food, and Molecular Biosciences,
Lincoln University, New Zealand
2004-2008
BSc in Engineering in Biological Engineering and Engineering in Computer Science and Technology
Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou City, China
Mathematical modeling
Pharmacodynamics
Computational Biology