Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Rita C. and William P. Clements, Jr. Scholar in Biomedical Research, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Prof. LI Xiaochun received his BS in Chemistry and Biology in 2008 and finished his PhD training in Structural Biology in 2012, both at Tsinghua University. His postdoctoral studies as a Life Science Research Foundation Fellow were conducted at the Rockefeller University. In 2017, he joined the faculty at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center. He is currently an Associate Professor and a Rita C. and William P. Clements, Jr. Scholar in Biomedical Research in the Department of Molecular Genetics and the Department of Biophysics at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Prof. Li’s research focuses on membrane proteins in cholesterol biogenesis, transport, and signaling using multiple approaches from protein engineering to x-ray crystallography and cryo-EM. He is the recipient of 2019 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award, 2023 American Heart Association Established Investigator Award, and 2023 G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation Award.