Hong Zhao

Clinical Assistant Professor

Education

Postdoctoral Research, CUNY Hunter College and memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook

B.S. in Organic Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Areas of Research Interest

Total synthesis of biologically valuable molecules

External Affiliations

Research Associate, Weill Cornell Medical College

Selected Publications

 

 

Qinsi Zheng, Steffen Jockusch, Zhou Zhou, Roger B. Altman, Hong Zhao, Wesley Asher, Michael Holsey, Signe Mathiasen, Peter Geggier, Jonathan A. Javitch and Scott C. Blanchard. “Electronic tuning of self-healing fluorophores for live-cell and single-molecule imaging”. Chem. Sci. 2017, 8, 755–762.

Manuel F Juette, Daniel S Terry, Michael R Wasserman, Roger B Altman, Zhou Zhou, Hong Zhao, Scott C Blanchard. “Single-molecule imaging of non-equilibrium molecular ensembles on the millisecond timescale”. Nature Methods. 2016, 13, 341-344.

Qinsi Zheng, Steffen Jockusch, Gabriel G. Rodríguez-Calero, Zhou Zhou, Hong Zhao, Roger B. Altman, Héctor D. Abruña, and Scott C. Blanchard. “Intra-molecular triplet energy transfer is a general approach to improve organic fluorophore photostability”. Photochem. Photobiol. Sci.2016, 15(2), 196-203.

Young Do Kwon, Marie Pancera, Priyamvada Acharya, Ivelin S Georgiev, Emma T Crooks, Jason Gorman, M Gordon Joyce, Miklos Guttman, Xiaochu Ma, Sandeep Narpala, Cinque Soto, Daniel S Terry, Yongping Yang, Tongqing Zhou, Goran Ahlsen, Robert T Bailer, Michael Chambers, Gwo-Yu Chuang, Nicole A Doria-Rose, Aliaksandr Druz, Mark A Hallen, Adam Harned, Tatsiana Kirys, Mark K Louder, Sijy O’Dell, Gilad Ofek, Keiko Osawa, Madhu Prabhakaran, Mallika Sastry, Guillaume B E Stewart-Jones, Jonathan Stuckey, Paul V Thomas, Tishina Tittley, Constance Williams, Baoshan Zhang, Hong Zhao, Zhou Zhou, Bruce R Donald, Lawrence K Lee, Susan Zolla-Pazner, Ulrich Baxa, Arne Schön, Ernesto Freire, Lawrence Shapiro, Kelly K Lee, James Arthos, James B Munro, Scott C Blanchard, Walther Mothes, James M Binley, Adrian B McDermott, John R Mascola, and Peter D Kwong. “Crystal structure, conformational fixation and entry-related interactions of mature ligand-free HIV-1 Env”. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2015, 22(7), 522-31.

Nicola J. Clegg, John Wongvipat, James D. Joseph, Chris Tran, Samedy Ouk, Anna Dilhas, Yu Chen, Kate Grillot, Eric D. Bischoff, Ling Cai, Anna Aparicio, Steven Dorow, Vivek Arora, Gang Shao, Jing Qian, Hong Zhao, Guangbin Yang, Chunyan Cao, John Sensintaffar, Teresa Wasielewska, Mark R. Herbert, Celine Bonnefous, Beatrice Darimont, Howard I. Scher, Peter Smith-Jones, Mark Klang, Nicholas D. Smith, Elisa De Stanchina, Nian Wu, Ouathek Ouerfelli, Peter J. Rix, Richard A. Heyman, Michael E. Jung, Charles L. Sawyers, and Jeffrey H. Hager. “ARN-509: A Novel Anti-androgen for Prostate Cancer Treatment”. Cancer Research. 2012, 72(6), 1494-503.

Hong Zhao, Luiz Pedro S de Carvalho, Carl Nathan, and Ouathek Ouerfelli. “A Protecting Group-Free Synthesis of Thiamine: A Step Toward Inhibitor Design”. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 2010, 20(22), 6472-6474.

Luiz Pedro S. de Carvalho, Hong Zhao, Caitlyn E. Dickinson, Nancy M. Arango, Christopher D. Lima, Steven M. Fischer, Ouathek Ouerfelli, Carl Nathan, and Kyu Y. Rhee. “Activity-based Metabolomic Profiling of Enzymatic Function: Identification of Rv1248c as a Mycobacterial 2-Hydroxy-3-oxoadipate Synthase”. Chemistry & Biology, 2010, 17(4), 323-332.