Shaowei Li

Shaowei Li is a tenured Professor of Biochemistry and Structural Vaccinology in the School of Life Sciences with a joint appointment in the School of Public Health, Xiamen University, China.

He is the vaccine group leader in the National Institute of Diagnostics and Vaccine Development in infectious diseases (NIDVD), and one of the academic leaders in the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Vaccinology and Diagnostics. Dr. Li has inter-disciplinary research interests focusing on structural vaccinology, resulting in more than 100 peer-reviewed papers. He also has translational experience in vaccine development against infectious diseases, especially in aspects of immunogen design, process development and antigen characterization.

Dr. Li has won two of China’s National Science and Technology Awards and been listed in the Top 20 translational researchers of 2016, ranked by Nature Biotechnology.