Zhaoyu Li

Dr. Zhaoyu Li is the Head of the Cancer Research Cluster at the School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia (UWA). He holds the Jack Tiddy Senior Lecturer position and is affiliated with the UWA Centre for Applied Bioinformatics and UWA Data Institute. His research focuses on cancer prevention through three main avenues: developing breast cancer prevention strategies, leveraging sex disparities in liver and esophageal cancers for prevention, and creating quantitative epigenomic tools like NUCLIZE for high-resolution histone modification analysis. Dr. Li has expertise in functional genomics, epigenomics, and bioinformatics, with a track record in NIH-funded projects including the Roadmap Epigenomics initiative.

Education: PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Alberta (2006), M.S. and B.S. in Biochemistry from Dalian Medical University. His training includes postdoctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania and Mayo Clinic.

Research interests emphasize translational oncology, epigenetic regulation in cancer, and computational biology applications. His lab actively recruits students and researchers in genomics, bioinformatics, and machine learning.

• Awards: K99/R00 Award, NIH R01 Grant (PI)
• Key Tools: NUCLIZE (quantitative epigenomic analysis)