Areas of Focus
- Structural Bioinformatics and AI Drug Design
Work Experience
- 1987-1992 - Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Scholar at University of British Columbia, Canada
- 1993-2006 - Researcher at Canadian Center for Computational Studies
- 2000 - Professor at Peking University
- 2002-present - Member at Concordia University, Molecular Design Research Center (part-time)
- 2003-2006 - Distinguished Professor at Tianjin University, Director of Bioinformatics and Drug Development Institute
- 2006-present - Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1987 - PhD from University of Puerto Rico
- Published over 600 papers, cited over 16,000 times, H-index 68, H10-index 322
Publications
- Thermal decomposition of the solid phase of nitromethane: Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations, Jing Chang, Peng Lian, Dong-Qing Wei, Xiang-Rong Chen, Zizheng Gong, Qingming Zhang, 2010
- Free Energy Calculations on the Two Drug Binding Sites in the M2 Proton Channel, Ruo-Xu Gu, Limin Angela Liu, Dong-Qing Wei, 2011
- A novel drug candidate for Alzheimer disease treatment - gx-50 derived from Zanthoxylum Bungeanum, Maoping Tang, Zhaoxia Wang, Ying Zhou, Wangjie Xu, Shengtian Li, Lianyun Wang, Dong-Qing Wei, Zhongdong Qiao, 2013
- Orientational order in simple dipolar liquids: computer simulation of a ferroelectric nematic phase, Wei, D. and G. Patey, 1992
- Hydrated proton clusters and solvent effects on the proton transfer barrier: A density functional study, Wei, D. and D. Salahub, 1994
- DTI-CDF: a cascade deep forest model towards the prediction of drug-target interactions based on hybrid features, Chu, Y., A.C. Kaushik, X. Wang, W. Wang, Y. Zhang, X. Shan, D.R. Salahub, Y. Xiong, and Wei D.Q., 2019
- Human intestinal defensin 5 inhibits SARS-CoV-2 invasion by cloaking ACE2, Wang, C., Wang, S., Li, D., Wei, D.Q., Zhao, J. and Wang, J., 2020
- A transformer-based model to predict peptide–HLA class I binding and optimize mutated peptides for vaccine design, Chu, Y., Zhang, Y., Wang, Q.K., Zhang, L.F., Wang, X.H., Wang, Y.J., Salahub, D.R., Xu, Q., Wang, J.M., Jiang, X., Xiong, Y, and Wei, D.Q., 2021
Awards
- Shanghai Science and Technology Progress First Prize
- Second Prize of Chinese Medical Science
- Second Prize of Natural Science by the Computer Society
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University Science and Technology Award
- Fifth Jiaoshanqing Research Award
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University Hengshan Liangci Award