Dr. Liu is a faculty member in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. She is a member of the American Thoracic Society. Past honors include the Saul Winegrad Award for Outstanding Dissertation and the Roy G. Williams Award for research in the basic medical sciences.
Dr. Liu’s clinical interests include general pulmonary and critical care medicine.
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Dr. Liu is interested in investigating the mechanisms of lung injury and repair using patient-derived organoid models. Dr. Liu has developed methods to grow lung organoids from bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, which expands the scope of lung pathologies that can be studied using a patient’s own cells, without the need for biopsy. Through wide-ranging collaborations, she is applying these approaches to study a variety of poorly-understood disease processes, such as acute lung allograft rejection and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome. Her long-term goal is to provide cellular and biochemical insights into the mechanisms of understudied inflammatory and fibrosing lung diseases and to explore potential personalized therapies.
Her current research mentors are Dr. Lynn Schnapp at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Dr. Carla Kim at Boston Children’s Hospital.