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Our team

The people behind the research.

PepSense is built by researchers, not marketers. Every compound profile, evidence grade, and regulatory record on this platform is checked against the primary literature before it ships.

Mei Li, PhD, Chief Science Officer at PepSense
San Francisco Bay Area

Mei Li, PhD

Chief Science Officer

Mei Li leads research at PepSense. She is a biochemist with more than a decade of experience in biotherapeutics research and bioassay development, spanning academic research in China, pharmaceutical R&D in Hong Kong, and eight years leading research in the Cambridge, Massachusetts biotech corridor.

She spent eight years at Synlogic as Director of Biotherapeutics Research, where her work centered on biochemistry and bioassay development. Before that she was a Senior Research Scientist at Lee's Pharmaceutical Holdings in Hong Kong, and a Research Associate at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 2024 she has also worked as an independent research consultant.

At PepSense she owns the standard everything is held to: how studies are appraised, how evidence is graded from in-vitro through FDA-approved, how compound profiles are verified, and how regulatory filings are tracked. If a claim cannot be traced to a primary source, it does not ship.

Experience
Chief Science Officer PepSense · San Francisco Bay Area Present
Independent Research Consultant Self-employed · San Francisco Bay Area 2024 – Present
Director, Biotherapeutics Research Synlogic · Cambridge, Massachusetts 2016 – 2024
Senior Research Scientist Lee's Pharmaceutical Holdings · Hong Kong 2013 – 2015
Research Associate Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Guangzhou 2011 – 2013