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26 Sep 2019

HKU Chemist Professor Xuechen Li elected to the HK Young Academy of Sciences

    Professor Xuechen LI

    Professor Xuechen LI

    Professor Xuechen Li has been recently elected to Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences.

     

    Professor Li is honoured for his achievements and contributions for his innovative basic studies and translation research. His research group pioneered the new methods and strategies for chemically synthesizing biologics including glycans and proteins which are inaccessible by other means. In addition, he has made significant contributions to the cyclic peptide-based antibiotics development, with completion of the total synthesis of daptomycin and teixobactin.

     

    Professor Li received his PhD from Harvard University in 2007. After postdoctoral work at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, he joined the Department of Chemistry in 2009, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014 and Professor in 2018. Professor Li was the recipient of Wuxi PharmaTech Life Science and Chemistry-Scholar Award (2014), Distinguished Faculty Award by Chinese-American Chemistry & Chemical Biology Professor Association (CAPA) (2016), Croucher Senior Research Fellowship (2017), Outstanding Researcher Award by the University of Hong Kong (2018), and the Rao Makineni Award by American Peptide Society (2019).

     

    To learn more about Professor Li's research, please click here.

     

    Professor Li and his team
    Professor Li and his teixobactin project-team