Fei Li

Fei Li is an Assistant Professor of Biology at New York University. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from the University of Texas at Austin. He then conducted his postdoctoral research at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and University of California at Berkeley. He has been with the Department of Biology at New York University since 2010. He was named a Pew scholar in the Biomedical Sciences in 2013 by the Pew Charitable Trust. His research focuses on understanding the fundamental principles of epigenetic regulation, especially how specific epigenetic states are established and inherited, with the ultimate aim of offering novel strategies for diagnosis and treatment of diseases associated with epigenetic dysregulation. His laboratory takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining genetics, state-of-the-art imaging, biochemistry, structural biology and genomics. His research is funded by National Institute of Health and National Science Foundation.