Researcher

Jingmei Li is a Principal Scientist II at A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS). She received her bachelor’s degree from the National University of Singapore, then completed her PhD training at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden on an A*STAR Graduate Scholarship. Her research involves investigating the genetic and non-genetic risk factors associated with breast cancer, with the hopes of identifying the molecular players that shape cancer risk to support early and preventive interventions against the disease. For her work, she was honoured with the UNESCO-L’Oreal Women in Science International Fellowship (2014), National Research Foundation Fellowship (2017) and the Young Scientist Award (2017). She describes herself as a woman in science doing science for women.