Liu Xin

Biography

Dr. LIU Xin is currently a professor at Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). She also serves as an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Dr. LIU received a bachelor’s degree in clinical medicine from Shandong Medical University, China in 1993, and a Ph.D. in genetic epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHBSPH), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, in 2002 (thesis advisor: Dr. Terri H Beaty). Dr. LIU pursued her postdoctoral training in the Department of Epidemiology at JHBSPH under the supervision of Dr. Margaret Daniele Fallin, and then in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California at San Francisco under the supervision of Dr. John S. Witte. Before joining the faculty at Beijing Institute of Genomics, Dr. LIU was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics (2007-2015) and Preventive Medicine (2011-2015), at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. LIU Xin has extensive experience in genetic epidemiological studies of complex diseases, including prostate cancer and childhood diseases. She has authored and co-authored ~60 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Dr. LIU was the PI (R03 AI105294, R21AI087888) and co-investigator of several NIH-funded large-scale genetic epidemiological studies of food allergy, preterm birth and obesity.

Research Interest

Genomics, Biostatistics, Pediatrics, Allergy