Jie Li obtained her Doctorate degree from Zhejiang university in 2011, and commenced her medical career as a residency in the Department of Infectious Disease at Shandong Provincial Hospital, Affiliated with Shandong University. In 2014, she was appointed as an Associate Professor at Shandong University. From 2015 to 2017, she worked as a research fellow at the University of Hong Kong under the guidance of Professor Man-Fung Yuen, and then as a visiting scholar at Stanford University with Professor Mindie H. Nguyen. In 2021, she joined the Department of Infectious Diseases, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, the Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, assuming the position of a professor. Her primary areas of interest revolve around the clinical diagnosis and treatment of viral hepatitis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, cirrhosis, and liver cancer.