Liu Ying

Professor

Peking University

Liu Ying graduated from the Department of Biochemistry at Nanjing University in 2006 with a bachelor's degree. She earned her PhD in biochemistry from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 2011. As a Helen Hay Whitney Fellow, she conducted postdoctoral research at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School from 2011 to 2013. She joined Peking University at the end of 2013.

Liu has received honors that include the Founders’ Award from the Biochemistry Department of Stanford University; the Nominata Award, the highest honor bestowed by UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; the Chinese Young Women in Science Fellowship; and the inaugural Xplorer Prize.

Her research focuses on cellular stress and homeostatic regulation, particularly on how cells perceive and respond to mitochondrial stress and amino acid deficiency. Imbalances in these processes are closely associated with cancer, metabolic diseases and aging.

Liu currently serves as a researcher at the Peking University-Tsinghua University Center for Life Sciences and the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics. She also works as an international investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

She has been supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and was selected among the list of leading talents in science and technology innovation of the National High-level Personnel Special Support Program.