Prof. Dr. Dehai Li

Dehai Li is a professor in the Marine Natural Products Research Group (Qianqun Gu’s Lab) at the School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China. He worked as an associate professor from 2009 to 2013. He received his Ph.D. in Marine Natural Products Chemistry at Ocean University of China in 2007 and B.Sc. in Pharmacy at Shandong University in 2002. His research interests include (1) the isolation and identification of fungi and actinomycetes from special marine environments such as deep-sea, Antarctic, marine biologies, etc; (2) searching for secondary metabolites with bioactivities including antitumor, antifungal, antivirus, etc., from derived microorganisms; (3) expanding the chemical space of secondary metabolites by biosynthesis, metabolic regulation, and/or other comprehensive methods; and (4) the structural modification of bioactive compounds using semi- or total synthesis.