Wei Li, PhD

Dr. Li research focuses on the following topics: 1) Identification of the “driver genes” for wound healing, 2) Identification of tumor-secreted molecules as drug targets for TNBCs (triple negative breast cancers). 3) Signal transduction to understand the cell motility signaling, which initiates at the cell surface, propagates via cytosolic signaling networks and executes by newly expressed and secreted gene products.

His experimental model systems are less manipulated primary human skin cells, whose migration is essential for both physiological processes, such as skin wound healing, and pathological occurrence, such as skin cancer, PDX models for TNBCs and pig models for wound healing.

• USC Stevens Center for Innovation: Technology Commercialization Award, 2017
   – 2017
• USC Stevens Center for Innovation: Technology Commercialization Award, 2018
   – 2018
• USA: Elected Member, National Academy of Inventors, 2017
   – pre.

• Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China — B.S. — 1982 — General Biology
• CUSBEA, Guangzhou, China — English Certificate — 1984 — English
• Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City, NY — Ph.D. — 1991 — Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• New York University Medical Center, New York City, NY — Postdoctoral Research — 1993 — Signal Transduction

• Development of Extracellular Heat Shock Protein-90 as a Novel Topical Wound Healing
  NIH · R01AR059853 · Jul 1, 2011 – Apr 30, 2018 · Role: Principal Investigator
• Mechanisms of Human Dermal Fibroblast Migration
  NIH · R01GM067100 · Jan 1, 2003 – Apr 30, 2021 · Role: Principal Investigator
• Signal Transduction of Human Keratinocyte Migration
  NIH · R01GM066193 · Jul 1, 2002 – May 31, 2013 · Role: Principal Investigator
• STUDIES OF A NOVEL SH2/SH3-CONTAINING CELLULAR ONCOGENE
  NIH · R01CA065567 · Aug 15, 1995 – Apr 30, 2001 · Role: Principal Investigator

• big molecule drug development, wound healing, breast cancer

• Scientist breaks through the body's intricate healing process (04/23/2014)

• Armstrong, David
• Woodley, David
• Chen, Mei
• Chuong, Cheng-Ming
• Lenz, Heinz-Josef
• Zhang, Lin