Lingjun Li
Chinese-born Wisconsin professor
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Lingjun Li is a Professor in the School of Pharmacy and Department of Chemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She develops mass spectrometry based tools to study neuropeptides, peptide hormones and neurotransmitters.
Lingjun Li | |
|---|---|
| Born | Beijing, China |
| Education | Beijing University of Technology (BE) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (PhD) |
| Awards | Biemann Medal (2014) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Workplaces | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Thesis | Following Neuropeptide Processing, Distribution, Transport, and Release Using Novel Mass Spectrometric Approaches (2000) |
| Jonathan V. Sweedler | |
Early life and education
Li was born in Beijing, China in 1969. She graduated from Beijing University of Technology in 1992, and did an internship at Environment Canada.[1] She received a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000, under the direction of Jonathan Sweedler.[2]
Career
From 2000 to 2002, Li conducted postdoctoral research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richard Smith), Brandeis University (Eve Marder), and University of Illinois (Jonathan Sweedler).[2][3] She then joined University of Wisconsin-Madison as Assistant Professor in 2002. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008, and Full Professor in 2012.[3] She has been appointed as a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor since 2015,[4] and Charles Melbourne Johnson Distinguished Chair in Pharmaceutical Sciences.[1]
She serves on the US Human Proteome Organization Board of Directors,[5] Chinese American Society for Mass Spectrometry Board of Directors,[6] and on the editorial board for Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry,[7] Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis[8] and Frontiers in Biology.[9] She was the President of the Chinese American Society for Mass Spectrometry (2013-2015),[10] and an Associate Editor for Analytical Methods (2013-2016).[11][12]
Awards
- 2004 American Society for Mass Spectrometry Research Award[13]
- 2005 National Science Foundation Career Award[14]
- 2006 Sloan Research Fellowships[15]
- 2011 Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award[16]
- 2014 American Society for Mass Spectrometry Biemann Medal[17]
- 2016 Analytical Scientist The Power List - Top 50 most influential women in the analytical sciences[18]
- 2019 Analytical Scientist The Power List[19]
- 2021 Analytical Scientist The Power List[20]
- 2024 Analytical Scientist The Power List, Human Health Heroes[21]
- 2026 U.S. Human Proteome Organization The Catherine E. Costello Award for Exemplary Achievements in Proteomics[22]
Patent applications
- Isobaric tandem mass tags for quantitative proteomics and peptidomics (2012) US 9388132 B2[23]
- Mass defect-based multiplex dimethyl pyrimidinyl ornithine (DiPyrO) tags for high-throughput quantitative proteomics and peptidomics (2016) AU 2016338691 A1[24]
- Isobaric Multiplex Reagents for Carbonyl Containing Compound High-Throughput Quantitative Analysis (2019) US 20190225559 A1[25]
- Development of a Novel Mass Spectrometry-Based Method for Simultaneous Qualitative and Quantitative Protein Citrullination Analysis of Complex Biological Samples (2020) US 20210181206 A1[26]