Speaker
Prof. Wei Li
Beijing Children’s Hospital, Capital Medical University, China
Biography :
Wei Li, Ph.D., Professor of Beijing Children’s Hospital, Capital Medical University. Director of Genetics and Birth Defects Control Center, National Center for Children’s Health. Research Interests: Biogenesis of lysosome-related organelles and related diseases; Genetics and pathogenesis of birth defects and rare diseases. He has co-authored 150 SCI-indexed journals with about 10,000 citations. He initiated the first genomic newborn screening program in China in 2015. He has been awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award of China Birth Defects Salvage Foundation (2022).
