Dr. LI Yongxin

李泳新博士

Former IAS Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. LI Yongxin

李泳新博士

Former IAS Postdoctoral Fellow

After receiving his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in pharmaceutical science from Peking University, Li Yongxin joined the research group of Prof. QIAN Pei-Yuan at HKUST for his doctoral studies and obtained his PhD in Biology in summer 2014. He spent a short period (March-Sep 2013) in Prof. Bradley Moore’s lab of University of California at San Diego to interrogate biosynthesis of natural products. In August 2014, he joined IAS as a Postdoctoral Fellow.

Dr. Li has authored and co-authored 12 scientific papers. His current research interest includes: (1) natural product chemistry: focused on discovery of novel bioactive natural products from marine bacteria; (2) natural product biosynthesis: focused on genome mining, heterologous expression and biosynthesis study of microbial natural products.

Dr. Li worked with Prof. Qian Pei-Yuan, Division of Life Science.

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