Heng Li

Dr. Li graduated from Nanjing University in China with a B.Sc. in physics and obtained PhD in theoretical biophysics in 2006 from the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science. Dr. Li was a postdoc at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute before working at the Broad Institute since 2009. Dr. Li joined Dana-Faber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in 2018. He studies advanced computational methods to analyze large-scale biological sequence data and to solve practical problems in biomedical researches.

Companies

• Associate Professor Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (2022)
• Associate Professor Harvard Medical School (2022)
• Affiliated member Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (2018)
• Assistant Professor Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (2018 — 2022)
• Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School (2018 — 2022)
• Senior Research Scientist Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (2014 — 2018)
• Research Scientist Broad Institute (2009 — 2014)
• Post Doctoral Fellow the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (2006 — 2009)
• Group Leader Beijing Genomics Institute, Chinese Academy of Science (2002 — 2006)

Education

• PhD The Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science (2001 — 2006)
• Bachelor Nanjing University (1997 — 2001)