Nailin Li

Nailin Li is associate professor, and has worked as a senior researcher at Karolinska Institutet since 2003. He also serves as the director of Karolinska Institutet Doctoral Programme in Cardiovascular Research (CVR) and as Karolinska Institutet Scientific Coordinator for China.

Dr Li received his medical and graduate (MSci) education at Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China. He pursued his doctoral education at Karolinska Institutet, and received his PhD degree of clinical pharmacology in 1999. Afterwards, he continued his post-doc training at both Karolinska Institutet and University of Leicester in UK during 2000-2002.

Nailin Li's research interests focus on platelet function and thrombosis, with research work on thrombotic and inflammatory mechanisms in atherosclerosis, platelet angiogenetic activities in arterial remodeling and cancer progression, as well as pre-clinical and clinical evaluation of antiplatelet drugs. He has published over 100 research papers in peer-reviewed journals. 

Nailn Li is very active in doctoral education and international educational exchanges. He runs the Doctoral Programme in Cardiovascular Research (CVR) at Karolinska Institutet, a programme with over 200 doctoral students affiliated and providing 10+ courses and research training events per year. He organises 2 doctoral courses per year, and contributes to multiple doctoral courses.