{"id":1764,"date":"2016-11-23T09:54:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T09:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andrewwickscreative.co.uk\/clients\/nsif-dev\/?post_type=scientist&#038;p=1764"},"modified":"2018-10-04T17:19:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T16:19:50","slug":"dr-daqing-li","status":"publish","type":"scientist","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewwickscreative.co.uk\/clients\/nsif-dev\/scientist\/dr-daqing-li\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Daqing Li"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Dr. Daqing Li is a cell culture specialist working at the Spinal Repair Unit, the Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, UCL Institute of Neurology.<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Li carries out the central role of culturing and characterising the rat and human olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) and their preparation for transfer to the site of injury.\u00a0 He collaborated with Dr. Pawel Tabakow and his team to grow the OECs for the first successful case of autologous transplantation of the OECs to treat spinal cord injury.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Li is now working closely with colleagues to prepare for the treatment of more patients.\u00a0This preparation includes efforts to improve techniques of tissue acquisition, cell culture and efficient use of the limited cell numbers with fabrication of cellular-biomaterial scaffolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-1764","scientist","type-scientist","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dr. Daqing Li - Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewwickscreative.co.uk\/clients\/nsif-dev\/scientist\/dr-daqing-li\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dr. Daqing Li - Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Daqing Li is a cell culture specialist working at the Spinal Repair Unit, the Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, UCL Institute of Neurology. 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