Li Ding is the David English Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Washington University.
She is known for the development of multiple computational tools now commonly used in cancer biology research, including VarScan,[1] HotSpot3D,[2] and BreakDancer.
[3] Ding obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Fudan University in 1991.
[4] As of 2023, she is the David English Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Washington University in St.
[5] Ding is known for her work in using computational tools in cancer research and has collaborated frequently with David Fenyő, Timothy J. Ley, Matthew Meyerson, and Michael Christopher Wendl.