Alex (Chieh-Yuan) Li

Lead Scientist at Mission Bio

Alex (Chieh-Yuan) Li has a diverse work experience in the field of scientific research and development. Alex (Chieh-Yuan) is currently working as a Staff Scientist at Mission Bio, a position they have held since October 2020. Prior to this, Alex worked as a Graduate Student Researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center from September 2015 to August 2020. Alex (Chieh-Yuan) also briefly served as a Scientist at Fluidigm Corporation from March 2015 to June 2015.

Alex's career began at Ion Torrent by Life Technologies in August 2011, where they worked as a Scientist specializing in targeted resequencing NGS library prep method R&D, highly multiplexed PCR reaction, and isothermal amplification applications for NGS library prep. Alex (Chieh-Yuan) then joined Life Technologies in April 2010 as a Scientist, focusing on Next Gen genotyping assay design, gene expression assay design pipeline and assay R&D, and lyophilized TaqMan assay and mastermix.

Before that, Alex worked as a Scientist at Roche Molecular Systems from November 2009 to April 2010, and as a Scientist at Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics from March 2008 to October 2009.

Alex (Chieh-Yuan) Li completed a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Biology at the University of California, Berkeley from 2005 to 2007. Subsequently, from 2015 to 2020, Alex pursued a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Cancer Evolution and Biology at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. In addition, Alex holds a certification in Six Sigma Yellow Belt from Life Technologies, but the details of the accomplishment date are not provided.

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  • Lead Scientist

    April 1, 2024 - present

  • Staff Scientist

    October, 2020