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Tonglei Li - Ph.D.

Dr. Li's research interests include the solid-state chemistry, computational materials science, novel drug delivery system, crystal disease and biomineralization.

Selected Honors

  • DOD Breast Cancer Idea Award (2006)
  • NSF Career Award (2005)
  • AACP New Investigator Award (2004)
  • NSF Nano-Exploratory Grant (2003)
  • PhRMA Research Starter Award (2003)
  • AAPS New Investigator Award (2002)

Selected Publications/Presentations

  • Visualizing the Locality of Intermolecular Interactions in Organic Crystals Tonglei Li Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling. 2007.
  • The Polymorphism of Indomethacin: An Analysis by Density Functional Theory Calculations Clare Aubrey-Medendorp, Matthew J. Swadley, and Tonglei Li Pharmaceutical Research, 2007.
  • The Confusion of Indexing Aspirin Crystals Clare Aubrey-Medendorp, Sean Parkin, and Tonglei Li Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2007.
  • 2,4,6-Trimethylbenzenaminium chloride Sihui Long, Maxime Siegler and Tonglei Li Acta Crystallographica, E63:o3080, 2007
  • 6-oxo-1,6-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylic acid Salin Gupta, Sihui Long and Tonglei Li Acta Crystallographica, E63:o2784, 2007
  • 3-Carboxy-2-(2,6-dimethylphenylamino)-pyridinium trifluoroacetate Sihui Long, Sean Parkin and Tonglei Li Acta Crystallographica, E63:o906-o907, 2007
  • Reaction Mechanisms of Cyclotrimethylene Trinitramine Deciphered by Density Functional Theory Matthew Swadley and Tonglei Li Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 3:505-513 2007
  • Understanding the Polymorphism of Aspirin with Electronic Calculations Tonglei Li Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 96:755-760, 2007
  • 6-Chloronicotinic acid Sihui Long, Maxime Siegler and Tonglei Li Acta Crystallographica, E63:o279-o281, 2006
  • 2-Oxo-1,2-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylic acid Sihui Long, Maxime Siegler and Tonglei Li Acta Crystallographica, E63:o5664-o5665, 2006
Tonglei Li

Contact Information

501C College of Pharmacy
725 Rose Street
Lexington, KY 40536

phone: 859-257-1472

Positions

  • Associate Professor
    Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Education

  • B.S. in Chemistry
    Nankai University, China, 1988
  • M.S. in Comp. Chemistry
    Nankai University, China, 1991
  • M.S. in Computer Science
    Purdue University, 1997
  • Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics
    Purdue University, 1999

Scholarly/Research Interests

  • Solid-state organic chemistry
  • Pharmaceutical materials science and engineering
  • Materials characterization and Instrumental analysis
  • Drug Delivery systems
  • Research Lab
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