Jun Li

Jun Li received her Ph.D. in Population Health from Queensland University in 2004 and a bachelor’s degree in Phamacology from Xinjiang Medical University in 1984. She worked as a Pharmacy reseacher at Xinjiang People’s Hospital from 1983 to 1999 and Senior research officer at PanBio Company in Australia from 2004 to 2008 and Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia from 2009 to 2013. She has studies at the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University since 2013. Her research interests include drug development for treating echinococcosis.  She actively and heavily involved in screening and digging the genome and transcriptome of Echinococcus and Brucellosis. Based on the finding of novel molecular targets, she found several small molecules showing strong killing echinococcal cysts. Professor Li has published 130 refereed papers/articles in her research career.Most of her publications focus on natural components and small molecules against infectious diseases including flu and parasite diseases.