Xiaolong Li is a Staff Scientist at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, specializing in biochemistry, protein structure, immunology, and infectious disease since September 2021. Key responsibilities include producing antigen-bound HLA for T cell tetramer staining, isolating specific T cells for single-cell sequencing, and examining T cell functionality through various assays. Prior to this role, Xiaolong served as a Research Fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where effective collaboration with multiple professors facilitated the development of protocols for antigen-bound HLA and soluble T cell receptors. Academic qualifications include a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology from the University of Science and Technology of China, complemented by graduate studies at Harvard Medical School and Peking University.
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Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard
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The Ragon Institute was established in 2009 with a dual mission: to contribute to the accelerated discovery of an HIV/AIDS vaccine and subsequently establish itself as a world leader in the collaborative study of immunology. Founded with a commitment of $100 million from Phillip T. (Terry) and Susan M. Ragon, and with an additional $200 million gift to endow the Institute announced on April 26, 2019, the Institute is structured and positioned to significantly contribute to a global effort to successfully develop an HIV/AIDS vaccine by: • Creating non-traditional partnerships among experts with different but complementary backgrounds; • Providing a means for rapidly funding promising studies; • Integrating key facets of vaccine development efforts that have tended to follow separate tracks; • Providing a substantial pool of accessible, flexible funding that lowers the threshold for scientists to pursue risky, unconventional avenues of study that are unlikely to attract funding from traditional sources. Such funding encourages innovation, compresses the time it takes to conduct bench-to-bedside research and attracts new minds to the field. The Ragon Institute creates a singular opportunity and environment to engage scientists, engineers and clinicians in challenging research for which there is no greater benefit – saving lives and curing the ill.