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Liqing Justin Yu, MD, PhD

Academic Title:

Professor

Primary Appointment:

Medicine

Secondary Appointment(s):

BioChemistry&Molecular Biology

Email:

lyu@som.umaryland.edu

Location:

670 W. Baltimore Street HSF III, Room 4042 Baltimore, MD 21201

Phone (Primary):

410-706-5829

Phone (Secondary):

410-706-1633 (lab)

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Education and Training

  • Hubei Medical University at Xianning, Hubei, China, MD, Medicine, 1985
  • The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, MS, Pathology, 1988
  • Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, PhD, Molecular and pathological basis of atherosclerosis, 1995
  • University of Alberta School of Medicine, Alberta, Canada    Postdoc, Lipid metabolism, 1996-1998
  • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, Postdoc,  Lipid metabolism, 1998-2000

Biosketch

My long-term goal is to identify the molecular mechanisms underlying lipid metabolism and transport and to define how these mechanisms influence the pathogenesis of common diseases, such as obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and cardiovascular diseases. I have a broad background in biomedicine through clinical practice (Pathologist and Cardiologist) and basic research. I completed my postdoctoral training first in the lipid and lipoprotein group at the University of Alberta in Canada with Dr. Luis B. Agellon and later in the Department of Molecular Genetics at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas with Dr. Helen H. Hobbs.

In 2004 I started my own lab at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, working on the role of NPC1L1 in cholesterol transport and metabolic disease, and recently on the role of intracellular lipid droplet lipolysis in the pathogenesis of metabolic disorders. I singlehandedly created several transgenic and knockout mouse models, and served as the Director of the Institutional Transgenic Mouse Core Facility at Wake Forest University School of Medicine for more than 7 years, demonstrating my strong background on molecular biology, genetics and genetic manipulations of mice.

In 2005, I started teaching students the advanced topics of Molecular and Cell Biology as well as Lipid Metabolism first at Wake Forest and later at University of Maryland, which ensures timely update of my knowledge in these areas. As a core faculty in the Georgia State University’s Center for Molecular and Translational Medicine, and now in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition at University of Maryland School of Medicine, I have close interactions with colleagues who share common research interests. These daily intellectual exchanges secure successful completion of our research projects.

Research/Clinical Keywords

lipid metabolism and transport, nafld, cardiovascular disease

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