Rate My Professor Bowen Li

Bowen Li is an Assistant Professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto, with cross-appointments in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Chemistry. He holds the Canada Research Chair in RNA Vaccines & Therapeutics and the GSK Chair in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery. Li earned his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Washington-Seattle in 2019 and completed postdoctoral training at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT from 2019 to 2022. His research focuses on developing nonviral biomaterial-based platforms, including lipid nanoparticles, for the delivery of nucleic acids such as mRNA, siRNA, and CRISPR-Cas9 components, with applications in vaccines, cancer immunotherapy, gene editing, and regenerative medicine.