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Yang Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at Yale School of Medicine since August 1, 2022. He obtained his PhD from the University of California, Riverside, focusing on Environmental Toxicology in 2017, and completed his postdoctoral training at Yale University in 2018 under Dr. Rong Fan in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Liu's research centers around the development of spatial omics technologies, with notable techniques including DBiT-seq, which allows for high spatial resolution in RNA and protein sequencing from tissue sections, and Spatial-CITE-seq. His laboratory investigates the application of these techniques in studying tumor microenvironments, neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and microbiome development. Dr. Liu has received prestigious awards such as the SITC-SU2C Convergence Scholar Award in 2019 and the NIH Hubmap Jumpstart Award in 2021. His work significantly contributes to the advancement of spatial biology, enabling deeper insights into complex biological systems.
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