Gang Li MBBS, D. Phil

Gang Li is a non-clinical full professor (since 2009) in the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Previous to this appointment, he was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Reader (1998-2009), at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Queen's University, Belfast, UK.

Prof. Li earned an MBBS at the Fourth Military Medical University, Xian, China (1991), and a D. Phil at the University of Oxford School of Medicine, England, UK (1998). The focus of his research are on studies of the biological mechanisms of distraction osteogenesis, stem cell biology, circulating mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), the use of MSCs for cell therapy applications, musculoskeletal tissue regeneration, and repair.