Professor Huating Li is a researcher and doctoral supervisor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital. She is a recipient of the Excellent Young Scientist Fund from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and has been selected for the Hong Kong Scholars Program of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of China. Additionally, she has been included in talent programs such as the Shanghai Rising-Star Program, the Chenguang Program of Shanghai Education Development Foundation and Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, and the Shanghai Pujiang Program.

Professor Li has long been devoted to the study of molecular mechanisms and interventions for diabetes and related metabolic diseases. She has received funding for research projects including the major program and general programs from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Since 2013, she has been conducting research on the intervention of resistant starch in metabolic diseases. She has established population cohorts for the intervention of resistant starch in individuals with overweight or obesity and patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and has discovered for the first time in populations that resistant starch can reduce body weight and intrahepatic triglyceride content through modulation of the gut microbiota. The related findings have been published in Cell Metabolism and Nature Metabolism. Besides, as (co-)first or (co-)corresponding author, professor Li has published over 40 SCI papers in international authoritative journals, such as Nature Medicine, Science Translational Medicine, and Advanced Science.