Yuru Liu
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Biography
Yuru Liu has completed her PhD from John Hopkins University School of Medicine and Post-doctoral studies from Duke University. She is an Assistant Professor in Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago. She has established her own research group and uses state-of-the-art genetic models to identify the signaling mechanisms of alveolar regeneration after lung injury. She has published 15 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as Councilor in American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, the Great Lakes Chapter.
Abstract
Abstract : CD44-high alveolar type II cells show stem cell properties during steady-state alveolar homeostasis