Dr. Li obtained her Ph.D. degree from China Pharmaceutical University in 1999, and then worked as a post-doctoral research fellow in Institute of Materia Medica of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College (CAMS & PUMC). In 2001, she was sponsored by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to work as a post-doctoral research fellow in Niigata University, Japan. From 2003 to 2007, she engaged in the study of bioactive compounds in The National Center for Drug Screening, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research in The Chinese University of Hong Kong during the period 2007 to 2011 mainly focused on the toxicity of natural products. She has rich experience in the research of natural product chemistry, and has published more than 30 research articles in number of international journals including Journal of Hepatology, PNAS, Molecular Pharmaceutics, Journal of Natural Products and etc.