Ting-Kai Li, M.D., NIAAA Director
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Dr. T. K. Li was born in
Nanjing, China, in 1934. After earning his M.D. from Harvard in
1959, he completed his residency at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
in Boston. He went on to conduct research at the Nobel Research
Institute and Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
After serving
as Deputy Director of the Department of Biochemistry within the
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Dr. Li joined the faculty
at Indiana University as professor of medicine and biochemistry
in 1971. He subsequently was named the school's John B. Hickam Professor
of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and later Distinguished
Professor of Medicine. In 1985 he became director of the Indiana
Alcohol Research Center (IARC) at the Indiana University School
of Medicine, where he also was the Associate Dean for Research.
Read Dr. Li's Full Biography.
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