Today we have the honour of having Dr. Yingfu Li, a McMaster Infectious Disease Researcher, join us and discuss his perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic. We'll also be talking about his amazing fundraising efforts, his research, and how you can help.

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Dr. Li's Credentials Abbreviated:
Dr. Yingfu Li received a BSc in chemistry from Anhui University in 1983, an MSc in applied chemistry at Beijing Agriculture University in 1989, and a PhD in chemistry and biochemistry at Simon Fraser University in 1997. His doctoral study led to the discovery of one of the earliest DNA molecules with catalytic ability. He achieved this feat through a powerful test-tube evolution technique known as in vitro selection. This work won him Governor General of Canada Gold Medal (1998) and a Doctoral Prize from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (1998). He received a Medical Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellow in 1997 and spent the next two years in the laboratory of Ronald Breaker at Yale University to study artificial evolution using DNA as the model system. Through test-tube evolution he derived a series of nucleic acid enzymes that are capable of modifying DNA using chemical reactions that are carried out in cells by protein enzymes.

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