Vivian Li

Vivian Li
Alma materChinese University of Hong Kong
Known forDevelopmental biology, Organoids
SpouseWilliam Berry
AwardsFuture Leaders in Cancer Research Prize, Cancer Research UK;

Women in Cell Biology Early Career Medal Winner, British Society for Cell Biology;

BACR/AstraZeneca Young Scientist Frank Rose Award, British Association for Cancer Research
Scientific career
FieldsBowel cancer development, Organoids
Institutions
Thesis (2008)

Vivian Li is a Hong Kong-born cell and developmental biologist working in cancer research at London's Francis Crick Institute. She has been researching how stem cells in the human bowel are programmed to ensure a healthy organ and what goes wrong when cancer develops.[1] She is known for her work on the Wnt signalling pathway, discovering a new way that a molecule called Wnt is activated in bowel cancer.[2] She won a Future Leaders in Cancer Research Prize in part for this discovery.[3]

  1. ^ "Vivian Li". Crick. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  2. ^ Novellasdemunt, Laura; Foglizzo, Valentina; Cuadrado, Laura; Antas, Pedro; Kucharska, Anna; Encheva, Vesela; Snijders, Ambrosius P.; Li, Vivian S. W. (2017-10-17). "USP7 Is a Tumor-Specific WNT Activator for APC-Mutated Colorectal Cancer by Mediating β-Catenin Deubiquitination". Cell Reports. 21 (3): 612–627. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2017.09.072. ISSN 2211-1247. PMC 5656747. PMID 29045831.
  3. ^ "Celebrating a lifetime in cancer biology, an early diagnosis champion, and our leaders of tomorrow: the 2018 CRUK Research Prizes". Cancer Research UK. 2018-12-06. Retrieved 2019-03-07.