Dr. Jin Li received BS and MS at Fudan University in 1985 and 1987, respectively, and received a Ph.D. in Biomedical
Sciences/Genetics at Houston Health Science Center of University of Texas in 1994, and between 1994 and 1996, he had post-doctoral training at Stanford University. In 1997, he was engaged by the School of Life Sciences of Fudan University as a part-time professor, and in 2005, he returned to China, and became a full-time professor of the School of Life Sciences, and from 2003 to 2008, he served as the dean of the School of Life Sciences. His main research areas include medical genetics and genetic epidemiology, human population genetics, and computational biology.