Rong Li | |
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Born | Rong Li 1967 Beijing |
Nationality | United States |
Fields |
Cell biology Evolutionary biology Chemical engineering Biomolecular engineering |
Alma mater |
Yale University (B.S., M.S.) University of California, San Francisco(Ph.D.) University of California, Berkeley(Postdoctoral Fellowship) |
Doctoral advisor | Andrew W Murray |
Known for |
Cell biology Cellular asymmetry Cell dynamics Aneuploidy Cell morphology Eukaryotic cells Oogenesis Cell migration |
Notable awards |
Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships (2015) William Neaves Award (2010-2012) Hoechst Marion Roussel Award (now the Aventis Award) (1999-2001) |
Website |
Website
Rong Li Faculty Webpage
Rong Li is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Whiting School of Engineering. She is also the Director of the Center for Cell Dynamics in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. She is a leader in understanding cellular asymmetry, division and evolution, and specifically, in how eukaryotic cells establish their distinct morphology and organization in order to carry out their specialized functions.
Rong Li was born in Beijing, China in 1967. She was the first high school graduate from the People’s Republic of China admitted to Yale University. She went on to graduate in four years from Yale University Summa Cum Laude and with Distinction in Major with a combined B.S. and M.S. in Biophysics & Biochemistry. She then earned a Ph.D. in Cell Biology through the Herbert W. Boyer Program in Biological Sciences (PIBS) at the University of California, San Francisco, and subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley in Molecular Cell Biology. In 1994, she accepted an assistant professorship in cell biology at Harvard University, rising to the associate level in 2000. From 2005-2015, she was an Investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and an affiliated Professor in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine.