Lingjun Li

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Lingjun Li is a Professor in the School of Pharmacy and Department of Chemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She develops mass spectrometry based tools to study neuropeptides, peptide hormones and neurotransmitters.

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Lingjun Li
Born
Beijing, China
Alma mater Beijing University of Technology (BE)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (PhD)
Awards Biemann Medal (2014)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
Institutions University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thesis Following Neuropeptide Processing, Distribution, Transport, and Release Using Novel Mass Spectrometric Approaches  (2000)
Doctoral advisor Jonathan V. Sweedler

Early life and education

Li was born in Beijing, China in 1969. She graduated from Beijing University of Technology in 1992, and did an internship at Environment Canada. [1] She received a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000, under the direction of Jonathan Sweedler. [2]

Career

From 2000 to 2002, Li conducted postdoctoral research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richard Smith), Brandeis University (Eve Marder), and University of Illinois (Jonathan Sweedler). [2] [3] She then joined University of Wisconsin-Madison as Assistant Professor in 2002. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008, and Full Professor in 2012. [3] She has been appointed as a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor since 2015, [4] and Charles Melbourne Johnson Distinguished Chair in Pharmaceutical Sciences. [1]

She serves on the US Human Proteome Organization Board of Directors, [5] Chinese American Society for Mass Spectrometry Board of Directors, [6] and on the editorial board for Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, [7] Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis [8] and Frontiers in Biology. [9] She was the President of the Chinese American Society for Mass Spectrometry (2013-2015), [10] and an Associate Editor for Analytical Methods (2013-2016). [11] [12]

Awards

Patent applications

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  1. 1 2 Phillips, Kristin Elise (January 2019). "Faces of Mass Spectrometry Lingjun Li" (PDF). American Society for Mass Spectrometry. Retrieved June 5, 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Contributors to the Emerging Investigators Special Issue". Analyst. 131 (2): 180–185. 2006. Bibcode:2006Ana...131..180.. doi:10.1039/B600332J.
  3. 1 2 "Pharmaceutical Sciences Division Wisconsin Center for NanoBioSystems Lingjun Li". University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
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  22. ↑ USapplication 9388132B2 Lingjun Li, Feng Xiang, Tyler Greer, Dustin Frost, Zhidan Liang/Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation: "Isobaric tandem mass tags for quantitative proteomics and peptidomics" filing date 14.09.2012
  23. ↑ AUapplication 2016338691A1 Amanda Buchberger Jones, Dustin Frost, Lingjun Li/Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation: "Mass defect-based multiplex dimethyl pyrimidinyl ornithine (DiPyrO) tags for high-throughput quantitative proteomics and peptidomics" filing date 14.10.2016
  24. ↑ USapplication 20190225559A1 Lingjun Li, Yu Feng, Bingming Chen, Qinying Yu, Xuefei Zhong, Miyang LI/Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation: "Isobaric Multiplex Reagents for Carbonyl Containing Compound High-Throughput Quantitative Analysis" filing date 18.01.2019
  25. ↑ USapplication 20210181206A1 Lingjun Li, Yatao Shi, Zihui Li/Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation: "Development of a Novel Mass Spectrometry-Based Method for Simultaneous Qualitative and Quantitative Protein Citrullination Analysis of Complex Biological Samples" filing date 14.12.2020
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