Academic Appointment

• Assistant Professor

Education

• PhD, University of Pittsburgh
• MA, University of Pittsburgh
• BS, Nanjing University, China

Research Interests

Developing mathematical models of relevance to sports training and injury rehabilitation, spinal cord injury, diabetic foot ulcers, and other settings in which inflammation and tissue damage/healing are implicated.

Recent Publications

• Mi, Q., Constantine, G., Ziraldo, C., Solovyev A., Torres, A., Namas, R., Bentley, T., Billiar, T., Zamora, R., Puyana, J. C., Vodovotz, Y., A Dynamic View of Trauma/Hemorrhage-Induced Inflammation in Mice: Principal Drivers and Networks, PLoS ONE, 2011, 6(5): e19424
• Arciero, J.C., Mi, Q.,, Branca, M.F., Hackam, D.J., Swigon, D., Continuum Model of Collective Cell Migration in Wound Healing and Colony Expansion, Biophysical Journal, 2011 Feb 2;100(3): 535-43, co-first author 
• Mi, Q., Li, N.Y.K., Ziraldo, C., Ghuma,A., Mikheev, M., Squires, R., Okonkwo, D.O., Verdolini,K., Constantine, G., An, G., Vodovotz, Y., Translational Systems Biology of Inflammation: Applications to Personalized Medicine,  Personalized Medicine, September 2010, 7(5): 549-559
• Solovyev, A., Mikheev, M., Zhou, L., Dutta-Moscato, J., Ziraldo, C., An, G., Vodovotz, Y., Mi, Q., SPARK: A System Biology Framework for Agent-based Biomedical Modeling. International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems, 2010 2(3):18-30
• Vodovotz, Y., Constantine, G., Faeder, J., Mi, Q., Rubin, J., Bartels, J., Sarkar, J., Squires, R., Okonkwo, D., Gerlach, J., Zamora, R., Luckhart, S., Ermentrout, B., An, G. Translational systems approaches to the biology of inflammation and healing. Immunopharmacol. and Immunotoxicol. 2010 June; 32(2): 181-195
• An, G., Mi, Q., Dutta-Moscato, J., Vodovotz, Y., Agent-based Models in translational systems biology, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: System Biology and Medicine, 2009 Volume1, Issue 2: 159-171
• Li, N. Y. K., Verdolini, K., Clermont, G., Mi, Q., Hebda, P. A., Rubinstein, E. N.,  Vodovotz Y. A patient-specific in silico model of inflammation and healing tested in acute vocal fold injury. PLoS ONE, 2008 July 30; 3(7), e2789.
• Mi, Q., Swigon, D., Rivière, B., Cetin, S., Vodovotz, Y., Hackam, DJ, One dimensional elastic continuum model of cell migration in wound healing,  Biophysical Journal,  2007 Dec 1;93(11): 3745-52.
• Mi, Q., Rivière , B., Clermont, G., Steed, DL, Vodovotz, Y., Agent-based Model of Inflammation and Wound Healing: Insights into Diabetic Foot Ulcer Pathology and the Role of Transforming Growth Factor-b1 , Wound Repair and Regeneration, 2007  Sep-Oct; 15(5): 671-82.

Current Research Grant

• IBM Shared University Research grant, Platform for Innovative Translational Modeling-Assisted Projects (PITMAP), Enhancing Agent-based Modeling Architecture, $500,000 hardware and software. Principal-Investigator
• National Science Foundation grant IIS-0938393, “Health Computing: Integrate Computational Thinking into Health Science Education”, 10/1/09-9/30/11,$283,640.00, Co-Principal-Investigator
• National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research grant H133E070024, “RERC center grant on Spinal Cord Injury, D1 project” 2007-2012, Co-investigator, $182,419 10/1/07-9/30/12,  Co-Investigator
• National Institutes of Health grant P50-GM-53789-08 “Trauma Center Grant, Project V”, 7/1/09-6/30/14, $1,063,777,  Co-Investigator
• Department of Defense Research grant N00014-08-1-0412, “Naval Special Warfare Injury Prevention and Human Performance Initiative”,  $919,001, 2/15/08-2/13/10,  Co-Investigator
• A grant from Common Wealth of Pennsylvania , Co-Investigator
• National Institutes of Health grant 2U01DK072146-06, “A Multi-Center Group to Study Acute Liver Failure in Children”, $3,622,542, 10/1/10-09/30/15, Co-Investigator

Invention 

• Modeling Wound Healing, Pub. No.: WO/2008/067042