Li Jun

Jun Li is a professor of Xinjiang Medical University and a senior research fellow of State Key Laboratory of Pathogenesis, Prevention and Treatment of High Incidence Diseases in Central Asia, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, China. She received her B. Sc from Xinjiang Medical University. In 2004, she obtained her PhD at the University of Queensland working on developing diagnosis tool for detecting cystic echinococcosis. She then spent 3 years working on PanBio for developing diagnosis kit for infectious diseases. From 2008-2013, she worked on molecular biology of Echinococcus as a senior research officer in Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, Infectious Diseases Division, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. She has published more than 80papers/articles in the international journals in her research career.