About Yao Li’s work
From August to November 1995, Yao Li held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. At the time, Li was based at Fudan University.
Biography
Li Yao holds a Bachelor's and Master's in Biology from Fudan University. She worked in product development of biochemical pharmaceuticals in Sichuan StarBioengineering Company. She received her Ph.D. in Biology from Fudan University in 1993 and has been teaching at the School of Life Sciences of Fudan University since graduation. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Biology at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Department of Biology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Li's research interests include tumor functional genomics research; gene expression regulation studies; The role and mechanism of non-coding RNAs.