Wendy Liu Ph.D.
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (Joint)
Pharmaceutical Sciences (Joint)
About
Dr. Wendy Liu earned her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in 2007 as a National Science Fellow. Her doctoral work was completed in the laboratory of Dr. Christopher Chen. Following her Ph.D., Wendy completed postdoctoral positions at Arsenal Medical Inc., a biomedical start-up company developing cardiovascular devices, and at MIT, where she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Langer. Dr. Liu commands a well-funded, first-rate and internationally known research laboratory in immunoengineering and immunobiology. Her group employs engineering tools and modalities to improve tissue engineering and regeneration efforts by understanding how cues from the microenvironment of cells can control or regulate their immune responses. She has made great strides in engineering systems to control cell microenvironments and understand immune functions. Her work has been cited over 4,400 times in the last five years, underscoring the impact of her contributions to understanding and manipulating immune cell behavior in health and disease.
Education
Postdoctoral Fellow – MIT/Boston’s Children’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow – Arsenal Medical Inc.
Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering – John Hopkins University
B.S. Materials Science & Engineering – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Contact
6086 Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Building
Irvine, CA 92697-2730
(949) 824-1682 wendy.liu@uci.edu
Academic Distinctions
2022 – AIMBE Fellow
2018 – Society of Leukocyte Biology Young Investigator Award
2014 – UCI HSSoE Junior Faculty Research Award
2013 – BMES-CMBE Rising Star Award
2012 – NIH Director’s New Innovator Award