Dr. Li received his bachelor′s degree from Wuhan University in Wuhan, China and a master′s degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Immunology and Biological Sciences from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Li completed his postgraduate training in Molecular Biology and Cell Biology from the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He was an Assistant Professor of Biology at Wuhan University from 1985 through 1989. Dr. Li joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1997.