Yong Li
Associate Professor
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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. |
Associate Professor