
Vivian Li
- Lab: Stem Cell and Cancer Biology Laboratory
- Job Title: Group Leader
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- Phone Number: +44 (0)20 3796 1502
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Qualifications and history
- 2008 PhD, Department of Pathology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- 2008 Postdoctoral Fellow, Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands
- 2013 Group Leader, Medical Research Council National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK
- 2015 Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Vivian Li obtained her PhD at the University of Hong Kong (Department of Pathology) in 2008, where she researched the molecular mechanism of human colonic development and tumourigenesis. She received the Gold Medal Prize for her PhD thesis.
After completing her PhD study, Vivian was funded by the Croucher Foundation Fellowship to pursue her post-doctoral research training with Hans Clevers at the Hubrecht Institute in the Netherlands. Her work focused on Wnt pathway proteomics and characterising intestinal stem cell genes using newly created transgenic mouse models.
She has contributed to the identification of novel Wnt signalling mechanisms at different subcellular levels (receptor, core destruction complex and transcription). During her postdoc studies, she has become familiar with reverse mouse genetics and the state-of-the-art ex vivo organoid cultures.
Vivian established her lab at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research (now part of the Francis Crick Institute) in February 2013
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Research topics
- Biochemistry & Proteomics (5)
- Cell Biology (5)
- Chemical Biology & High Throughput (5)
- Computational & Systems Biology (6)
- Developmental Biology (21)
- Genetics & Genomics (2)
- Genome Integrity & Repair (2)
- Human Biology & Physiology (21)
- Imaging (1)
- Immunology (2)
- Infectious Disease (3)
- Metabolism (3)
- Model Organisms (3)
- Signalling & Oncogenes (21)
- Stem Cells (21)
- Structural Biology & Biophysics (1)
- Synthetic Biology (1)
- Tumour Biology (21)
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Journal
- American Journal of Physiology. Cell Physiology (1)
- American Journal of Physiology: Cell Physiology (1)
- Biological Chemistry (1)
- Cell (3)
- Cell Reports (3)
- Cell Stem Cell (1)
- Current Biology (1)
- Development (1)
- EMBO Journal (1)
- Gastroenterology (2)
- Immunity (1)
- Molecular and Cellular Biology (1)
- Mucosal Immunology (1)
- Nature (2)
- Nature Cell Biology (1)
- Nature Communications (1)
- Nature Genetics (1)
- Nature Medicine (1)
- Nature Metabolism (1)
- Nature Methods (1)
- Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology (1)
- PLOS Biology (1)
- PLOS ONE (1)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA (1)
- Stem Cells International (1)
- The EMBO Journal (1)