Professor Wenjuan Li is a faculty member at the College of Food Science, Nanchang University, recognized as a provincial and ministerial-level talent and serving as a science and technology commissioner in Jiangxi Province. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the School of Medicine, Nanchang University in 2004, followed by a Master of Science in Pharmacology from the same school in 2007. In 2011, she completed her Ph.D. in Food Science and Engineering at the College of Food Science, Nanchang University, where she was honored as an Outstanding Doctoral Graduate and received the Jiangxi Provincial Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. From February 2018 to February 2019, she conducted visiting research at Purdue University in the United States.

     Her primary research areas include Food Science and Engineering, Food Safety and Molecular Nutrition, Structure Identification and Functional Mechanisms of Bioactive Food Components, Pharmacology and Molecular Nutrition, as well as Bioengineering and Food Engineering. In recent years, she has led four National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects and several provincial-level initiatives, including one NSFC General Program, two Regional Programs, and one Youth Program. She has published nearly 100 high-quality papers as the first or corresponding author, contributed to one academic monograph, and filed over ten patent applications. Her work on "Quality Control Models for Ganoderma lucidum and Structural Characterization and Bioactivity of Polysaccharides from Black Ganoderma" received the First Prize of the Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Award in 2015. Under her supervision, the project "Mannose Receptor-Mediated Regulation of Macrophage Polarization by Black Ganoderma Polysaccharides" won the National Third Prize at the 15th "Challenge Cup" National Undergraduate Academic and Technological Works Competition. Additionally, her teaching of the course "Food Safety Risk Assessment" was supported by a Jiangxi Higher Education Teaching Reform Project.