Dr Xianghua Li is a geneticist whose research explores how genetic variation affects human health and disease. She specialises in deep mutational scanning and functional genomics, focusing on transcription factors and RNA editing enzymes. Her work bridges experimental and computational approaches to understand gene regulation at scale. Dr Li completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh, followed by postdoctoral research at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Spain. She later led the Systems Genetics Research Group at the UoE–ZJU Joint Biomedical Institute in China and held a senior staff scientist role at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

At King’s, Dr Li leads a research group investigating variant effects in gene regulatory networks and contributes to postgraduate teaching in systems genetics and genome engineering.

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