Prof Dr Yang Li
People are different in genetic background. We study this inter-individual variation and want to understand susceptibility to infections and predict disease risk
Yang Li has headed the Department of Computational Biology for Individualised Medicine at the CiiM and the HZI since 2019 and was also appointed Director of the CiiM. The focus of her research is on understanding the molecular mechanisms of immune-related/infectious diseases through integration of multi-omics data.
Yang Li obtained her PhD in bioinformatics at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) in 2010. She received the National Bioinformatics Young Investigator Award of 2011 in the Netherlands. In 2013, she received her first personal grant: an NWO-VENI grant from the Dutch Research Council, which is an innovative research program to supporting talented and outstanding young researchers in the Netherlands. Thereafter, Dr. Li became an independent researcher and started to build her own research team to further her interests in the complex genetics of human diseases using the multi-omics datasets. Later, she received other prestigious personal grants including a ZonMW-Offroad and a Hypatia grant. Besides that she is co-applicant on several large consortium grants. She has published ~70 scientific articles including publications in Cell, Nature Medicine, Nature Immunology and Cell Reports. She also served as reviewer for many journals such as Nature Ecology & Evolution, Bioinformatics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (UK) and Genetics.
