Feng Li
Last Revised: Feb 5th, 2025
Professional Biography
Infectious Diseases
Dr. Li, William Robert Mills Endowed Chair in virology in the Gluck Equine Research Center, has been awarded 2023-2024 University Research Professor for excellence in research, scholarship and creative endeavors at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Li gained international renown for his discovery of a new type of influenza virus in bovines as a primary reservoir. He has also made seminal contributions to the development of novel class of HIV-1 maturation inhibitors that have been tested in HIV/AIDS patients. After his recruitment to the University of Kentucky in 2020, his work on equine infectious diseases resulted in the identification of new rotavirus in horses and the development of a genetically engineered vaccine against equine lentivirus.
