Statistical Center for Single-Cell and Spatial Genomics (SC2SG)

Dr. Li joined the biostatistics faculty in 2006 after receiving her PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Michigan in 2005. She is also a faculty member of the Genomics and Computational Biology (GCB) graduate program, and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Statistics at Wharton. Her main research areas are statistical genetics and genomics, bioinformatics, and computational biology.

She is Director of Biostatistics for the Gene Therapy Program at Penn and advises biostatistics and bioinformatics analysis for various gene therapy studies. She is also Chair of the Graduate Program in Biostatistics. Dr. Li actively serves in the scientific community. She is Associate Editor of Annals of Applied Statistics, Statistics in Biosciences, PLOS Genetics, and PLOS Computational Biology, and was a regular member of the NIH Genomics, Computational Biology and Technology study section (2011-2017) and a member of the review committee of its Center for Inherited Disease Research (2013-2017).