Qingjie Li
The University of Texas, USA
Biography
Qingjie Li, a Molecular Biologist, earned his MS Degree in Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry, Guangxi Normal University in 1991 and a PhD Degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Central South University ( P R China) in 2000. He worked as a Faculty Member at the same university from 1991 to 2000 and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University from 2000 to 2006. In 2007, as an Assistant Professor he joined the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018. He has several awards to his credit and has published more than 40 peer-reviewed research articles, a book chapter, and several gene sequences in GenBank. He has served as a Reviewer for NIH, American Gastroenterological Association, and numerous journals, including Gastroenterology, the most prominent journal in the field of gastrointestinal disease. His research interest include: pathogenesis, molecular mechanisms, and chemoprevention of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and its comorbidities, including colitis-associated cancer and IBD-associated cardiovascular disorders.