Portrait of Lijin Li, PhD

Lijin Li, PhD

Instructor in Surgery
Section of Surgical Oncology
Division of General Surgery

Specialties

  • Surgical oncology 
  • Cancer vaccines 
  • Immunology 

Meet Dr. Li 

Dr. Lijin Li is an immunologist specializing in surgical oncological research.

He has expertise in developing cancer vaccines and immunology. 

Dr. Li earned his doctorate in microbiology and immunology at University of Arizona. He completed a cancer immunotherapy fellowship at WashU Medicine.  


Degrees

Doctorate of Microbiology & Immunology
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2005

Fellowship

Cancer Immunotherapy Research Fellowship
WashU Medicine, St. Louis, MO
2010


Research interests

Preclinical development and clinical translation of cancer neoantigen vaccines 

mRNA-LNP vaccine platform 


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Awards and Honors


People’s Scholarship (1988 and 1989)
Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai, China.
Outstanding Student Award (1990)
Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai, China.
Guanghua Scholarship (1993)
Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai, China.
Graduate Registration Scholarship (2001)
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.