Professional Activities:

Academic Appointments:

1987-1990 Resident, General Surgery Section, Louyang 4th Hospital, P.R. China.
1996-1998 Chief Resident, Dept. of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Southwest Hospital, Chongqing, P.R.China.
2002-2004 Research Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University ofPittsburgh, School of Medicine, PA, USA
2004-2011 Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, PA 15213, USA.
2005-       Key Faculty member of McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
2005-2011 Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, PA, USA.
2006-2011 Tenure Track Assistant Professor, and Director of Laboratory of Molecular Pathology, Children’s Hospital of UPMC, and the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine.
2007-2011 Faculty Member of the Cellular and Molecular Pathology (CMP) Graduate Training Program, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine.
2007-2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh
2008-2011 Faculty, Mentor of undergraduate student research, School of Arts and Science, University of Pittsburgh
2008-2010 Chairperson, Scientific Research Seminar Series, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
2009-2011 Faculty, Medical Scientist (MD/PhD) Training Program, University of Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
2011-   Present Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of Pediatric Surgery, University of Texas, Medical School at Houston, TX, USA
2011- Present Associate Professor, Center of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, The z           Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases (IMM), University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), TX
2012- Present Associate Professor, Department of NanoMedicine and Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, Medical School at Houston, TX, USA
2012- Present Regular Member, University of Texas, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, TX, USA.

Honors and Awards:

2001 New Investigator Recognition Award, ORS 4th Combined Meeting, Rhodes Island, Greece, June 1-3
2003 Aircast Award for Basic Science Research, AOSSM Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, July 21
2003 One of the top ten scientific posters, American Society for Cell Biology Press Book, San Francisco, CA, December 13-17
2008 The Michael Miller Young Investigator Award at Children's Hospital of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), June, 2008.
2011 Mentor, 2011 national Goldwater scholarship (Wen Xu).
2014 Mentor, travel award in the American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair (ASNTR) 2014 conference.

Yong Li

Associate Professor

 

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  • DEPARTMENTDepartment of Pediatric Surgery
    University of Texas Medical School at Houston
    The Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
  • COUNTRY USA