Ruijin Hospital

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LIU Ruixin

Professor of Medicine

Doctoral Supervisor/Graduate Supervisor

Ruijin Hospital,Shanghai Jiao Tong University of Medicine

Research area: Internal Medicine

Email: xiner198287@163.com

Tel: 021-

Research Interests

  • Prof. Liu received her Ph.D. degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine in 2010 and further pursued postdoctoral research in Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She received Outstanding Youth Foundation from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2018. Her research focuses on elucidating the role and mechanisms of gut microbiome in the pathogenesis of obesity and metabolic diseases. Her group has uncovered the characteristics of gut microbiome in young obese individuals, identified a series of obesity-related microbial species, and further conducted functional study on these microorganisms. Prof. Liu published more than 30 research articles in high impact journals including Nat Med、 Nat Cell Biol、Diabetes、Nat Commun, etc., and received eight grants from NSFC.