Ning Li is a professor and doctoral advisor at Anhui Medical University. She received an MS from Nanjing Agricultural University in 2000 and a PhD from Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2004. From 2016 to 2017, she visited the National Center for Natural Products Research, School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, USA. She holds eight national invention patents and has won the third prize of the Anhui Provincial Science and Technology Award. Her research interests include natural drug chemistry, the material basis of Chinese medicine efficacy, and the research and development of new Chinese medicines.