Organizing Committee Member
Wei Li
Professor
University of Tennessee
USA
Biography
Dr. Wei Li has been working at the College of Pharmacy, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTCoP) since he obtained his PhD in chemistry from Columbia University in 1999. Currently he is a Professor and the Director of the UTCoP Drug Discovery Center. His focus of research is small molecule drug discovery, and currently his research is mainly funded by NIH/NCI grants. He has published over 135 papers, 3 book chapters, five issued US patents, and additional patents from other countries. He is a frequent grant reviewer for NIH study sections, and currently he is an editorial board member for Current Medicinal Chemistry, Molecules, and Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B.
Research Area
Pharmaceutical Chemistry