Huiying Li

Dr. Huiying Li is currently Professor in the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UCLA on the studies of protein structure using X-ray crystallography and gene expression analysis by bioinformatics. After postdoctoral study at UCLA on microbial genomics and metagenomics, she joined the faculty at UCLA. Currently, she studies the human microbiome using genomics, metagenomics, bioinformatics, and microbiology approaches. Dr. Li’s team has been involved in the NIH funded Human Microbiome Project and studies the human skin, oral, and vaginal microbiomes in important diseases. As a recently recognized research area, microbiome studies offer new opportunities to understand human physiology in health and disease at both molecular and systems levels. These studies also offer opportunities in developing new diagnostics and therapeutics.