Prof. Dr. Tianhong "Tina" Li, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine and a medical oncologist specializing in lung cancer at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCDCCC) and the VA Northern California Health Care System (VANCHCS). As a physician-scientist, her career focuses on translating laboratory discoveries and technological advances into improved patient care through early-phase clinical trials with integrated correlative science. She currently serves as the Phase I Disease Team Leader at UCDCCC. Dr. Li brings extensive expertise in personalized cancer care, leveraging her robust laboratory and clinical research background. Trained as a molecular biologist and immunologist, her current research focuses on uncovering the mechanisms of primary and acquired resistance to cancer therapies and advancing tissue- and blood-based molecular and immune biomarkers for precision lung cancer treatment.