Faculty
Oncology Division
Li Ding, PhD
David English Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Professor
Department of Medicine
Oncology Division
Computational Biology
Department of Genetics
McDonnell Genome Institute
Research Interests
- Cancer genomics and proteomics
Contact
- 314-286-1848 (office)
- 314-286-1810 (fax)
- lding@genome.wustl.edu
- Room 4186-B
4444 Forest Park Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63108 - The Genome Institute
- Ding Lab Website
Biosketch
| Education | |
|---|---|
| 1991 | BS in Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China |
| 1998 | PhD in Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT |
| 1998-2000 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA |
| Academic Positions & Employment | |
| 2000-2002 | Scientist II, Incyte Genomics, Palo Alto, CA |
| 2002-2005 | Special Project Leader, Analysis Group, The Genome Institute, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO |
| 2005-2009 | Research Instructor, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO |
| 2005-2012 | Group leader, Medical Genomics Group, The Genome Institute, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO |
| 2008-present | Assistant Director, McDonnell Genome Institute, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO |
| 2009-2012 | Research Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO |
| 2012-2015 | Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO |
| 2015-present | Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO |
| 2016-present | Director of Computational Biology, Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO |
| Other Experience & Professional Memberships | |
| Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | |
| Member, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | |
| Member, American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) | |
| Research Member, Siteman Cancer Center | |
| Reviewer, Cancer Research UK | |
| Review Panel, UK-ICGC program (prostate and oesophagus projects) | |
| Source Evaluation Group, NCI Cancer Genomics Data Commons | |
| Review Panel/Reviewer, NIH Cancer Genetic Study Section | |
| Review Panel/Reviewer, NIH Microbiome Sciences and the Associated Informatics SEP | |
| Co-chair, ICGC Pan Cancer Mutation Calling Group | |
| Co-chair, TCGA Pan Cancer Atlas Oncogenic Process Group | |
| Co-chair, TCGA Sarcoma Analysis Working Group | |
| Steering Committee Member, Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) | |
| Member, CPTAC Data Analysis Working Group | |
| Co-chair, Pan Cancer Atlas Germline Group | |
| Co-chair, Pan Cancer Atlas Driver Group | |
| Steering Committee Member, NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC) | |
| Honors | |
| 2008 | Tomorrow's PI, Genome Technology |
| 2010 | Chair for Functional and Cancer Genomics Session Session, The Biology of Genomes |
| 2011 | Chair for Population and Personal Genomics Session, Genome Informatics |
| 2013 | The Hottest Scientific Researchers of 2012, Thomson Reuters |
| 2014 | Chair for Genomic Alterations of Tumors Session, American Society of Human Genetics |
| 2014 | The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014, Thomson Reuters |
| 2015 | Chair for TCGA Fourth Annual Scientific Symposium, NIH |
