Background

Fuhai Li, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Informatics and Department of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. His recent research has focused on the integration and interpretation of diverse and heterogeneous pharmacogenomics data for i) understanding driver genetics/functional (mechanism), ii) discovering novel combinatory therapies to overcome intrinsic/acquired drug resistance (with reduced toxicity and synergy effects), and iii) uncovering and perturbing the tumor-stroma interaction to understand the roles of tumor micro-environment/niche in disease development.

Dr. Li obtained his PhD in Applied Math from Peking University. Then he conducted research as a visiting scholar at Harvard Medical School (HMS)/Brigham Women’s Hospital (BWH), where his research focused on developing computational approaches of bio-image informatics to automatically quantify thousands of cellular images to identify potential drugs and targets that can perturb cell cycles and cellular phenotypes. Prior to joining the faculty at Washington University, Dr. Li was an Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Informatics Department at The Ohio State University.