Prof. Qing X. Li

Qing X. Li is a professor in the Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, at the University of Hawaii (UH) in Manoa, Honolulu, USA. He received his B.S. in agriculture from Shandong Agricultural University, China, his Ph.D. in agricultural and environmental chemistry from the University of California at Davis and then post-doctoral training at the University of California at Berkeley, USA. He was director of the pesticide residue chemistry laboratory in UH-Manoa between 1995 and 2013. He has been the director of the UH proteomics core facility since 2011. His research is centered on agrochemicals. Recently, he began to explore the values and action mechanisms of natural products against Alzheimer’s disease and obesity. He is a member of the American Chemical Society. He has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry since 2015. He received the University of Hawaii research medal. He is a member of the National Academy of Inventors.