Draft:Shao Li

Shao Li (Chinese: 李梢) is a tenured professor at Tsinghua University. Li was elected as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistr y and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, UK. Li obtained his B.Sc from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine in 1995, M.S from Wannan College of Medicine in 1998 and M.D. from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine in 2001. He wrote the Network Pharmacology International Guideline in 2021 and was the editor of the network pharmacology monograph (Springer Press) in 2021. His main research interest is in bioinformatics, network pharmacology and precision medicine on cancer prevention. He proposed the theory and technologies of "network target" and natural medicine network pharmacology (ESI highly cited paper).

Academic memberships
Li is currently serving as the director of the first Tsinghua University Interdisciplinary Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the Chairman of the Specialty Committee of Network Pharmacology of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Society and Specialty Committee of Biomedical Big Data of the Chinese Society of Biotechnology. He also serves as Editorial Board Members including Cancer Biology & Medicine, Pharmacological Research , Journal of Ethnopharmacology. He has been invited to the NIH/NCI and other international conferences to deliver keynote speeches.

Honors and awards
He was elected World's Top 2% Scientists in 2019/2020/2021/2022/2023 (by Stanford University). He won the top award of both Gold Medal with congratulations of the Jury and Gold Medal in the 49th Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions (2024). He obtained the 1st Class of International Award for Outstanding Contribution to Chinese Medicine in 2020, and the Li Shizhen Pharmaceutical Innovation Award in 2019. He was also awarded Grand Challenges 2015—Young Scientists (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2015), the National Outstanding Young Scientist (2012), network pharmacology patent (USA, 2012), and National Science and Technology Progress Award (China, 2004).