Meet the Principal Investigator
Dr. Li's research focuses on gene-environment interactions in cardiometabolic disease and chronic kidney disease (CKD), providing crucial insights for precision health.
His work has helped elucidate the genomic mechanisms underlying salt sensitivity of blood pressure and the long-term cardiometabolic effects of early-life exposure to severe nutritional deprivation. In recent years, he has pioneered the use of metabolomics to quantify lifestyle behaviors, environmental exposures, and medication use, identifying genetic profiles that influence an individual’s cardiometabolic responses to these exposures.