2022-08-31

Department of Pharmacology Newsletter 2022

Dr. Fang Li returned to the Department of Pharmacology as Professor and Edmund Wallace Tulloch and Anna Marie Tulloch Endowed Chair in August 2022. 

He received his PhD in Biochemistry from Yale University and postdoctoral training in structural virology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Li joined the University of Minnesota in 2007 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and was later promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Since 2017, Dr. Li had a 5-year stint in the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences where he was promoted to Professor with tenure and then Endowed Professor. Dr. Li returned to the Department of Pharmacology to lead the Midwest Antiviral Drug Discovery Center and the Minnesota Center for Coronavirus Research. 

As a world-leading researcher on coronaviruses, Dr. Li has made pioneering discoveries on the structural mechanisms of COVID-19 and has also developed novel vaccines and therapeutics against COVID-19. According to an influential study published in Elsevier by Stanford University, Dr. Li is among the top 500 most impactful scientists in the world across all disciplines in 2022.