About Shaoping Li’s work
Shaoping Li held a Croucher Visitorship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from February to October 1998. At the time, Li was based at China Pharmaceutical University.
Biography
Shaoping Li holds a bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate in pharmacy from China Pharmaceutical University. Li was an associate professor in the Department of Pharmacy of Anhui Medical University and the First Affiliated Hospital, a researcher at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In 2022, he joined the Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, and was promoted to Distinguished professor in 2018.
His research interest include Glycol-analysis, especially saccharide mapping in quality control of herbal glycans; standard development of Chinese medicines; development of quality control methods, including HPLC, LC-MS, CE, CEC and GC-MS, for Chinese medicines. The developed quality standard evaluation method established six Chinese medicine category and was approved by the United States Pharmacopoeia. Li was selected into the list of The World's 60 Most Influential Analytical Scientists in 2020 by The Analytical Scientist in the UK, becoming the first Chinese medicine research expert to be on the list since the list was released in 2013.