同济医学院海外校友风采——李孟蓉

姓名/职位/现工作单位：

Marilyn M. Li, MD （李孟蓉）

Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Professor of Pediatrics

Vice Chief, Division of Genomic Diagnostics

Director of Cancer Genomic Diagnostics

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Perelman School of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania, USA

同济医学院求学与工作经历：

1978-1983 医学本科 (七八级三大班)

1983-1986 硕士研究生 (遗传与血液病学)

联系方式：

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

3615 Civic Center Blvd, 716 ARC

Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

Phone: (215) 590-4428

Email：Lim5@email.chop.edu

校友简介:

Marilyn M. Li, MD, obtained her M.D. and M.S. degree in Tongji Medical College, HUST, Wuhan, China. She is the Vice Chief of the Division of Genomic Diagnostics and Director of Cancer Genomic Diagnostics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Areas of Expertise: Precision cancer genomic diagnosis using high throughput molecular technologies, Liquid biopsy for cancer screen, risk stratification and monitoring, Cancer predisposition, Characterization of tumorigenesis roles of novel fusions identified during RNA-seq of tumor tissues, and cancer associated fusions in healthy individuals, Molecular diagnosis of overgrowth syndromes caused by somatic mutations in PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway.

李孟蓉教授，美国宾夕法尼亚大学Perelman医学院病理及临床检验学教授，儿科学教授，费城儿童医院遗传学诊断中心副主任，肿瘤分子病理诊断实验室主任，博士生及博士后导师。现任美国分子病理协会（AMP）实体瘤委员会成员，AMP肿瘤基因变异的分析与报告指南编写委员会主席，美国医学遗传协会（ACMG）临床实践指南委员会成员，美国肿瘤基因组诊断协会（Cancer Genomics Consortium）发起人和首任主席。李教授主要研究方向是肿瘤精准医学，肿瘤的遗传易感性，她首先将高通亮基因芯片和二代测序技术用于肿瘤的临床诊断，并因此获得2010 美国医学遗传协会LUMINEX/ACMGF 奖。她发表了150多篇经同行评审的SCI文章及报告文摘，并被邀请在国际和美国国内大型学术会议上以及著名高校医学院及医院做学术报告100余次。