Areas of Focus
- Mechanisms of Mycobacterial Drug Resistance
- Pathogen-Host Interactions of Mycobacteria
- Development of New Vaccines for Mycobacteria
Work Experience
- 2020-09 - Hengrui Medicine - Project Manager, Translational Medicine
- 2023-01 - Zhejiang University - Researcher, Doctoral Supervisor
Academic Background & Achievements
- Bachelor's Degree: Jilin University, Animal Medicine
- Ph.D.: Tsinghua University, School of Life Sciences, under Professor Babak Javid
- Postdoctoral Research: Cornell University, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, under Professors Sabine Ehrt and Dirk Schnappinger
Publications
- The essential mycobacterial amidotransferase GatCAB is a modulator of specific translational fidelity, Hong-Wei Su, Jun-Hao Zhu, Hao Li, Rong-Jun Cai, Christopher Ealand, Xun Wang, Yu-Xiang Chen, Masood ur Rehman Kayani, Ting F Zhu, Danesh Moradigaravand, Hairong Huang, Bavesh D Kana, and Babak Javid, 2016
- Genetic models of latent tuberculosis in mice reveal differential control by adaptive immunity, Hong-Wei Su, Kan Lin, Divya Tiwari, Clair Healy, Carolina Trujilo, Yao Liu, Dirk Schnappinger, Sabine Ehrt
- Forward Genetics Reveals a gatC-gatA Fusion Polypeptide Causes Mistranslation and Rifampicin Tolerance in Mycobacterium smegmatis, Cai, Rong-Jun, Hong-Wei Su, Yang-Yang Li, and Babak Javid, 2020
- Ribosomal RNA methylation by GidB is a capacitor for discrimination of mischarged tRNA, Zhuo Bi, Hong-Wei Su, Jia-Yao Hong and Babak Javid
- Tissue distribution of doxycycline in animal models of tuberculosis, Gengenbacher, M. Zimmerman, M.D., Sarathy, J.P., Kaya, F., Wang, H., Mina, M., Carter, C., Hossen, M.A., Su, H., Trujillo, C. and Ehrt, S., 2020
- Kasugamycin potentiates rifampicin and limits emergence of resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by specifically decreasing mycobacterial mistranslation, Chaudhuri S, Li L, Zimmerman M, Chen Y, Chen YX, Toosky MN, Gardner M, Pan M, Li YY, Kawaji Q, Zhu JH, Su HW, Martinot AJ, Rubin EJ, Dartois VA, Javid B., 2018
- Chemical composition of fennel essential oil and its impact on Staphylococcus aureus exotoxin production, Qiu J, Li H, Su H, Dong J, Luo M, Wang J, Leng B, Deng Y, Liu J, Deng X., 2012