The Ohio State University
Dr. Lang Li is currently the Professor and Chair of Department of Biomedical Informatics at The Ohio State University. He earned his PhD from the Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan in 2001 and started his academic career as a Assistant Professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine. At Indiana University, he served as the Director of The Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics between 2010-2017. Dr. Li’s lab is extremely well funded by multiple NIH institutes, including NIA, NIDA, NCI, and NICHD. He is PI or MPI on two R01, 1 U01, and 1 P30 grants. As Chair, Dr. Li has dedicated a significant amount of his effort in studying drug interactions between medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and co-medications among patients having opioid use disorder. In this recent research, he and his colleagues discovered a number ofdrug interactions with methadone and buprenorphine and have further validated the pharmacokinetic (PK) mechanisms of these drug interactions using PK models. In a recently funded research project, Dr. Li’s lab is tasked to build a pharmacology knowledge base for pediatrics and maternal patient populations, with a special focus on opioid use disorders. As the contact PI, his recently submitted NLM R01, “Machine learning drives translational research from drug interactions to pharmacogenetics” is scored 10 at 1%. Dr. Li has published 300+ peer reviewed papers in medical, informatics, pharmacology, biology, and biostatistics journals. Professionally, Dr. Li serves as the Associate Editor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics: Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology; IEEE Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; and Frontiers in Pharmacology. Dr. Li is also a regular member of the NIH study section, Clinical Data Management and Analysis.