Houhua Li, Ph.D.

   
Associate Professor (with tenure)

State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs

School of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China
   
Email: lihouhua@pku.edu.cn

ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4868-1322

Professional Experience:

2025.08-Present              Associate Professor (with tenure), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University

                                     Principal Investigator, State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs

2019.04-2025.07             Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University

                                     Principal Investigator, State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs

2016-2019                       Postdoc in Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany

                                     (Advisor: Professor Herbert Waldmann)

2009-2011                       Research Assistant in Chemistry Center, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China

                                     (Advisor: Professor Xiaoguang Lei)

Education:

2011-2016                       Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

                                     (Advisor: Professor Clément Mazet)

2006-2009                       M.S. in Chemical Biology, Peking University, Beijing, China

                                     (Advisor: Professor Xin-Shan Ye)

2002-2006                       B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Awards:

2024                              Wang Xuan Young Scholars Award, Peking University

2022                              The State Natural Science Award, Beijing, Second Prize (2/5)

2022                              Thieme Chemistry Journals Award

2016-2018                      Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Early Postdoc. Mobility fellowship

2016                              The Reaxys PhD Prize Shortlist

2013                              Travel Award from the Schmidheiny Foundation

Activities:

Member, TERPNET Executive Committee (2025-)

Member of the Academic Committee, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biologyand Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health (2024-)

Member of the Ad Hoc Committee, Medicinal Chemistry, Beijing Pharmaceutical Association (2021-)

Member, Chinese Chemical Society (2019-)