Guo-li Ming MD, PhD

Dr. Guo-li Ming is currently The Perelman Professor of Neuroscience and a member of the Institute of Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She received her medical training in Child and Maternal Care from Tongji Medical University in China in 1994 and her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 2002. After her postdoctoral training at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, she became an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University in 2003 and Professor in 2011. The research in her laboratory centers on understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying neuronal development and its dysregulation using mouse systems and patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells. She has received a number of awards, including the Charles E. Culpeper Scholarship in Medical Science in 2003, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 2005, Young investigator award from the Society for Neuroscience in 2012, and A. E. Bennett Research Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry in 2014. She becomes a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.