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Aiqun Li, PhD
About Me
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.
Language
English
Position
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Research Topics
Alzheimer's Disease, Drug Design and Discovery, Gene editing, Neuro-degeneration/protection, Stem Cells
Publications
Selected Publications
- Functional implications of polygenic risk for schizophrenia in human neurons. P. J. Michael Deans, Kayla G. Retallick-Townsley, Aiqun Li, Carina Seah, Jessica Johnson, Judit Garcia Gonzalez, Evan Cao, Nadine Schrode, Alex Yu, Sam Cartwright, Georgios Voloudakis, Wen Zhang, Minghui Wang, John F. Fullard, Kiran Girdhar, Eli Stahl, Schahram Akbarian, Bin Zhang, Panos Roussos, Paul O’Reilly, Laura M. Huckins, Kristen J. Brennand. Nature Communications
- Developing Topics. Natacha Comandante-Lou, Tsering D. Lama, Kevin W. Chen, Jinglong Zhang, Bin Hu, Shuhui Liu, Sarah E. Heuer, Kristen Brennand, Julie A. Schneider, Lisa L. Barnes, Bin Zhang, Minghui Wang, Hongyan Zou, Roland H. Friedel, Yiyi Ma, Tracy L. Young-Pearse, Aiqun Li, Masashi Fujita, David A.A. Bennett, Ya Zhang, Vilas Menon, Hans Ulrich Klein, Mariko Taga, Philip L. De Jager. Alzheimer's and Dementia
- Multiscale proteomic modeling reveals protein networks driving Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis. Erming Wang, Kaiwen Yu, Jiqing Cao, Minghui Wang, Pavel Katsel, Won min Song, Zhen Wang, Yuxin Li, Xusheng Wang, Qian Wang, Peng Xu, Gefei Yu, Li Zhu, Jia Geng, Parnian Habibi, Lu Qian, Tony Tuck, Aiqun Li, Julia TCW, Panos Roussos, Kristen J. Brennand, Vahram Haroutunian, Erik C.B. Johnson, Nicholas T. Seyfried, Allan I. Levey, David A. Bennett, Junmin Peng, Dongming Cai, Bin Zhang. Cell
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