Ni Liu, M.D., Ph.D.

Resident, Adult Psychiatry (PGY-3)

Medical Education:  Dalian Medical University, China

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Email:	Ni.Liu@uchospitals.edu

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Education & Training

• MD, Dalian Medical University (China), 1989
• PhD, Dalian Medical University (China) in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (China), 1996
• Adult Psychiatry Residency, University of Chicago, 2007-present

Clinical Interests

• Child and adolescent psychiatry,  Addiction.

Research Interests

• Genetics in bipolar and schizophrenia. Singnal pathway of addiction drugs

Society Memberships

• American Psychiatry Association, Member in training

Selected Publications

• Zhang M, Liu N, Park SM, Wang Y, Byrne S, Murmann AE, Bahr S, Peter ME, Olson ST, Belaaouaj A, Ashton-Rickardt PG. (2007)  Serine protease inhibitor 6-deficient mice have increased neutrophil immunity to Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J Immunol;179(7):4390-6

• Zhang M, Byrne S, Liu N, Wang Y, Oxenius A, Ashton-Rickardt PG. (2007). Differential survival of cytotoxic T cells and memory cell precursors. J Immunol. 178(6):3483-91
• Manling Zhang, Sun-Mi Park, Yue Wang, Ramila Shah, Ni Liu, Andrea E. Murmann, Chyung-Ru Wang, Marcus E. Peter and Philip G. Ashton-Rickardt (2006)
  Serine protease inhibitor 6 protects cytotoxic T cells from self-inflicted injury by ensuring the integrity of cytotoxic granules. Immunity. 24(4):451-461
• Ni Liu, Tiphanie Phillips, Manling Zhang, Yue Wang, Joseph T, Opferman, Ramila Shah, and Philip G. Ashton-Rickardt (2004). Serine protease inhibitor 2A is a protective factor for memory T cell development. Nat Immunol. 5(9): 919-26.
• Ni Liu Yue Wang, and Philip G. Ashton-Rickardt (2004).  Serine Protease inhibitor 2A(Spi2A) inhibits caspase-independent cell death. FEBS Letter, 569: 49-53.
• Phillips T, Opferman JT, Shah R, Liu N, Froelich CJ, Ashton-Rickardt PG. (2004) A role for the granzyme B inhibitor serine protease inhibitor 6 in CD8+ memory cell homeostasis. J Immunol. 173(6): 3801-9.
• Ni Liu, Srikumar M. Raja, Francesca Zazzeroni, Ramila Shah, Sunil S. Matkar, Ramila Shah, Manling Zhang, Yue Wang, Dieter Brömme, William A.Russin, Justine C lee, Marcus E.Peter, Christopher J. Froelich, Guido Franzoso, Philip G. Ashton-Rickardt. (2003). NF-κB protects from the lysosomal pathway of cell death. The EMBO Journal 22(19): 5313-5322.
• Ni Liu, Cheng jin, Zhengmei Zhu, Jianing Zhang, Hua Tao, Changhui Ge, Shoujun Yang, Shuzheng Zhang (1999). Stage-specific _expression of alpha 1,2 fucosyltransferase and alpha 1,3 fucosyltransferase (FT) during mouse embryogenesis.  European Journal of Biochemistry 265(1): 258- 261.

• D. Ghosh, Ni Liu, ZM.Zhu, J.Sengupta. (1998) Immunolocalization of LeY oligosaccharidein endometrium during menstrual cycle and effect of early luteal mifepristone administration its expression in implantation stage endometrium of the rhesus monkey. Human Reproduction. 13(5): 1374-1379.

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