Hojun Li, M.D., Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Moores Cancer Center, Office 5344

hojun@health.ucsd.edu

Endowed Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

University of California, San Diego (2024 - present)

Charles W.(1955) and Jennifer C. Johnson Clinical Investigator

Koch Institute for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2019 - 2023)

Postdoctoral Fellow

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (2016 - 2019)

M.D., Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine (2005 - 2012)

B.S. in Biochemistry

University of Maryland, College Park (2001 - 2005) …Go Terps!

Hojun trained in the M.D./Ph.D. program at the University of Pennsylvania, performing his graduate thesis with Kathy High quantifying the insertional mutagenesis risk of AAV vectors and developing the first methodology for in vivo genome editing. He performed Pediatrics Residency at Boston Children’s Hospital/Boston Medical Center and Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Boston Children’s Hospital. Following clinical training Hojun was a postdoctoral fellow with Harvey Lodish at the Whitehead Institute elucidating the cellular developmental mechanism of enhanced red cell production by glucocorticoids, and then established his independent lab at the MIT Koch Institute as the Charles W.(1955) and Jennifer C. Johnson Clinical Investigator. During his time as a postdoc and independent fellow Hojun attended on the Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant services at Boston Children’s  and Dana-Farber. He has been an American Society of Hematology Scholar, March of Dimes Basil O’Connor Award Scholar, Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Awardee, DBA Foundation Matthew Vroman Building Hope for the Future Awardee, Hyundai Hope on Wheels Hope Scholar, a Department of Defense Career Development Independent Fellow, and an NIH Clinical Investigator (K08) Fellow, and has won teaching awards both as a resident and as an attending. In 2024, Hojun and the lab moved to the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego and Moores Cancer Center, where Hojun now also attends on the Bone Marrow Transplant service at Rady Children’s Hospital.