Jiankang Liu
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Biography
Jiankang Liu has received his BS from Xi’an Jiaotong University and PhD of Medical Science from Okayama University School of Medicine, Japan. He has completed Post doctorate training in Dr. Bruce Ames Laboratory at University of California, Berkeley and worked as a Faculty at University of California at Berkeley, Children Hospital Oakland Research Institute, University of California at Irvine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine and Shanghai Institute for Nutritional Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is a Professor and the Dean of Xi’an Jiaotong University School of Life Science and Technology and an Adjunct Professor of the School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California. His research interests include molecular and cellular mechanisms of aging, stress and age/stress associated degenerative diseases with a focus on nutritional regulation of mitochondrial metabolism.