Hongjie Li, USA

Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

• Hongjie Li obtained his PhD degree from the University of Rochester under the mentorship of Dr. Henri Jasper and got his postdoctoral training with Dr. Liqun Luo at Stanford University.
• Hongjie started his lab in 2021 at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) as an assistant professor and CPRIT Scholar.
• He is currently a tenured Associate professor in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics.
• He pioneered the use of single-cell and single-nucleus RNA sequencing in Drosophila (2017 Cell; 2021a eLife; 2021b eLife) and has been leading the global project Fly Cell Atlas (2022 Science).
• His lab developed a quantitative method to measure aging rate of different cell types across the whole animal (2023 Science). Recently, his lab generated Alzheimer’s disease Fly Cell Atlas and, for the first time, revealed how AD-related neurodegeneration affect peripheral tissues across the whole body (2025 Neuron). His lab also co-generated worm aging cell atlas (2024 Nature Aging) and mosquito cell atlas (2025 Cell).
• His achievements have been recognized by receiving several prestigious awards, including the Stanford Neuroscience Institute Interdisciplinary Award (2017), NIH K99/R00 Award (2019/2021), Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Award (2020), Impetus longevity research Award (2021), Ted Nash Long Life Foundation Award (2022), and Welch Foundation Award (2023), Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Award, NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (DP2) (2024), Nancy Chang research Award (2025), and DeBakey Research Award (2025).

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