LIU Ruixin, China

Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Ruixin Liu, Ph.D. and M.D., Professor of Medicine in National Clinical Research Center for Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. She 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 the relationships between gut microbiome, 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 organisms. Dr. Liu published more than 30 research articles in high impact journals including Nat Med、 Nat Cell Biol、Cell host & microbe, etc., and received seven grants from NSFC.

Lectures：

Gut Microbiota and Obesity, Metabolic Regulation