ISSN: 2689-8993
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Wuzhong Qu
China
Dr. Jian Liu received her Ph.D. in Neurosciences from University of Washington in St. Louis, MO and continued her postdoctoral training with Professor Don Cleveland at UCSD. She has since been devoted her research career to understanding ALS pathogenesis as well as drug discovery and development for therapeutic treatment of ALS. She has made important contributions to the studies of rodent models of SOD1-linked ALS. She started an independent research group at California Pacific Medical Research Center in 2003 working closely with the Forbes Norris MND/ALS Research Center to bridge the basic research with ALS clinic to understand molecular mechanisms of ALS in general. Her group in collaboration with Professor Vishwanath Lingappa discovered that carbonic anhydrase isoform 1 might be playing a role in ALS. In 2009, she joined Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, a new Sino-British Higher Education Institution and continued working on CA1 involvement in ALS pathology.
