From 2008 to 2020, Li was a professor and researcher at West China (Huaxi) Hospital, Sichuan University.[2] She was the leader of the research team there and was on the staff at the Hospital between 1997, when she started as a postdoctoral research worker, and 2020.[3] Li has also taught molecular genetics at Tibet University Medical Science School.[4] As director of the Mental Health Center at West China Hospital, in 2012, she led a collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Medical School in studying tobacco addiction.[5]
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^"Psychiatric Laboratory". Psychiatric Laboratory. West China Hospital, SCU. Archived from the original on 22 October 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
^Gill, Michael; Vallada, Homero; Collier, David; Sham, Pak; Holmans, Peter; Murray, Robin; McGuffin, Peter; Nanko, Shin; Owen, Mike (1996-02-16). "A combined analysis of D22S278 marker alleles in affected sib-pairs: Support for a susceptibility locus for schizophrenia at chromosome 22q12". American Journal of Medical Genetics. 67 (1): 40–45. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19960216)67:1<40::AID-AJMG6>3.0.CO;2-W. ISSN1096-8628. PMID8678112.
^Lui, Su; Deng, Wei; Huang, Xiaoqi; Jiang, Lijun; Ma, Xiaohong; Chen, Huafu; Zhang, Tijiang; Li, Xiuli; Li, Dongming (2009-02-01). "Association of Cerebral Deficits With Clinical Symptoms in Antipsychotic-Naive First-Episode Schizophrenia: An Optimized Voxel-Based Morphometry and Resting State Functional Connectivity Study". American Journal of Psychiatry. 166 (2): 196–205. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2008.08020183. ISSN0002-953X. PMID18981063.
^Ji, Weidong; Li, Tao; Pan, Yaosheng; Tao, Hua; Ju, Kang; Wen, Zujia; Fu, Yingchun; An, Zhiguo; Zhao, Qian (2013). "CNTNAP2 is significantly associated with schizophrenia and major depression in the Han Chinese population". Psychiatry Research. 207 (3): 225–228. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2012.09.024. PMID23123147. S2CID22534509.