Aiqun Li, PhD

Dr. Aiqun Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences. He is working on validating novel targets for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) using stem cells, CRISPR systems, and next-generation sequencing.

Dr. Li earned his B.S. and M.S. in Medicine from Nanjing Medical University in 2000 and 2003. He then received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. He conducted his postdoctoral training at Weill Cornell Medicine during 2007-2011. He joined NYSCF as a Staff Scientist, leading the NYSCF-Golub Stem Cell Research Initiative for Parkinson’s Disease (PD) in 2011, and served as an NYSCF Investigator since 2016. Dr. Li was the recipient of the P&G Award for Outstanding Graduate Student, the Shanghai-Unilever Research & Development Fund, the Bachmann-Strauss Dystonia & Parkinson’s Foundation Research Grant, the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation Lucien Côté Early Investigator Award, the New York Community Trust Grant, the Michael J. Fox Foundation Target Validation Pilot Award, and the 2020 Friedman Brain Institute (FBI) Research Scholar.