Tier 2 Professors

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LI Pin

Chief Physician, Professor of Pediatrics

Research area: Clinical research of disorders of sexual development and basic research of precocious puberty.

Email: lipin21@126.com

Tel: 021-

Biography

  • Dr. LI Pin obtained her Doctor degree from Fudan University in 2003. She joined Shanghai Children’s Hospital in 2003 and has been the chief physician of Endocrinology since 2004. She was awarded as Special government allowances experts of the State Council in 2020.

  • Prof.Li’s research focuses on clinical research of disorders of sexual development and basic research of precocious puberty. Dr. Li group works to establishing a standardized multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment process for disorders of sex development. They have established a clinical research center for micropenis with hypospadias, in which they could carried out clinical research on disorders of sex development and established clinical database or biobanks. Basing on the gut microbiota-tryptophan regulatory pathway, her research explore the mechanism of tryptophan metabolites interfering the synthesis and secretion of hypothalamic GnRH through brain-gut axis and affecting female pubertal development. In addition, focused on epigenetics, she explore the molecular mechanisms of m6A modification regulated by demethylase in the hypothalamus which affect the synthesis and secretion of GnRH and control the initiation of puberty.