2007

William W. Li, MD, FACCWS
William W. Li is President, Medical Director, and Co-founder of The Angiogenesis Foundation, the world’s first nonprofit organization dedicated to the field of angiogenesis-based medicine, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Under Dr. Li's leadership, the Foundation has developed collaborations with medical universities around the world, with global biopharmaceutical industry leaders, and government agencies, including the U.S. National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute and the Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Li has been actively engaged in the field of angiogenesis and its clinical development over the past 20 years, and he is participating in national and international efforts to optimize the application of angiogenesis-based therapeutics across diverse medical fields, including oncology/hematology, cardiology, ophthalmology, vascular surgery, dermatology, and wound care. He lectures widely on angiogenesis-related topics to audiences throughout the world, and has been published in Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and other leading peer-reviewed medical journals. Dr. Li received his AB from Harvard College, and his MD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania. He completed his internship, residency, and fellowship training in General Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dr. Li has held appointments on the clinical faculties of Harvard Medical School, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School.