Yanying Liu is currently a professor teaching Medical Pathogenic Microbiology and Parasitology, Immunology, and Biochemistry at the Qingdao Huanghai University in China. She received her PhD in Neurobiology from the Capital Medical University (China) in 2006.

In the past decade or so, she has worked as a postdoc or research staff scientist engaged in scientific research related to neuroscience at SUNY Upstate Medical University or the University of South Dakota in the USA. Dr. Liu’s research is related to several areas such as Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, stroke, and stem cells. Her current research interests are the mechanism of the aging process, brain hypoxia, and stroke.

Stroke; Alzheimer’s disease; Aging; Brain hypoxia injury; Stem cells