Ming Li, PhD

Professor of Research Population and Public Health Sciences

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Overview

Dr. Ming Li is a Professor in the Division of Biostatistics of the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences starting January 2020.

Dr. Li has extensive experience leading Cores to provide integrated state-of-the-art biostatistics and clinical research informatics support for cancer research spanning basic and translational science to clinical studies, and cancer etiology to cancer control. Dr. Li has served previously as the Director of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core at Case Western Reserve University Comprehensive Cancer Center and now as the Director of the Data Science Core at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. With more than 20 years of collaborative research with principal investigators in the cancer field, as primary statistician for numerous grants and projects, Dr. Li has played a key role in multiple aspects, including designing experiments, providing statistical expertise, analyzing data from complex design, supervising staff statisticians, interpreting results, drafting manuscripts, and writing statistical sections for grants.

Education and Training

  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI — PhD — 11/2002 — Statistics and Management Science
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI — MS — 05/1999 — Statistics
  • Nankai University, Tianjin, China — BA — 07/1995 — Mathematical Statistics

Research Keywords

  • Cancer Biostatistics
  • Multi-Omics Data Analysis
  • Translational Bioinformatics
  • AI/Machine Learning

Publications

  • Analysis of -5p and -3p Strands of miR-145 and miR-140 During Mesenchymal Stem Cell Chondrogenic Differentiation. Tissue Eng Part A. 2019 01; 25(1-2):80-90.. View in PubMed
  • Proteomics and Network Analyses Reveal Inhibition of Akt-mTOR Signaling in CD4+ T Cells by Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mannose-Capped Lipoarabinomannan. Proteomics. 2017 Nov; 17(22).. View in PubMed
  • Notch2 blockade enhances hematopoietic stem cell mobilization and homing. Haematologica. 2017 10; 102(10):1785-1795.. View in PubMed
  • CRABP-II enhances pancreatic cancer cell migration and invasion by stabilizing interleukin 8 expression. Oncotarget. 2017 Aug 08; 8(32):52432-52444.. View in PubMed
  • The airway epithelium undergoes metabolic reprogramming in individuals at high risk for lung cancer. JCI Insight. 2016 11 17; 1(19):e88814.. View in PubMed
  • Causal relationship between obesity-related traits and TLR4-driven responses at the maternal-fetal interface. Diabetologia. 2016 11; 59(11):2459-2466.. View in PubMed
  • Oncogenic KRAS and BRAF Drive Metabolic Reprogramming in Colorectal Cancer. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2016 09; 15(9):2924-38.. View in PubMed
  • Quantitative Profiling of Protein Tyrosine Kinases in Human Cancer Cell Lines by Multiplexed Parallel Reaction Monitoring Assays. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2016 Feb; 15(2):682-91.. View in PubMed
  • Reproducibility of Volumetric Computed Tomography of Stable Small Pulmonary Nodules with Implications on Estimated Growth Rate and Optimal Scan Interval. PLoS One. 2015; 10(9):e0138144.. View in PubMed
  • Risk factors for abandonment of Wilms tumor therapy in Kenya. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2015 02; 62(2):252-256.. View in PubMed