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Dr. Longwei Liu
Dr. Longwei Liu
Assistant Professor
Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine (Primary)
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering (Secondary)
University of Southern California (USC)
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator
Bio
Dr. Liu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine (Primary), and Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering (Secondary), USC. Before that, he finished his postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD, 2019-2022). He holds a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University, China (2018), and trained in Biomedical Engineering-tissue engineering.
Dr. Liu has published first-author papers in high-impact journals such as Cell (2025), Nature Materials (2017), PNAS (2020), Nature Communications (2021). In addition, he has published corresponding author papers in Nature Communications (2024), ACS Nano (2024), and The EMBO Journal (2022), and co-author papers in Nature Biotechnology (2025), Science (2024), Nature Reviews Bioengineering (2023), Nature Materials (2022), Biomaterials (2016, 2017), two book chapters, among others.
Dr. Longwei Liu has received several prestigious awards, including the NIH Mentored Career Development Award (K01 award), the Ming Hsieh Institute Research Award (MHIRA award) and SBIR/STTR Planning Award from USC. He has also been recognized with the Outstanding Thesis Award, Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate Award from Tsinghua University, the National Scholarship (Ph.D.), and multiple other scholarships. Dr. Liu serve as the CMBE section chair of the 2024 BMES annual meeting and as a trainee organizing committee member for the International Symposium on Biomolecular Ultrasound and Sonogenetics (ISBUS, 2022). He has taught guest lectures in courses such as DSR 542 (2024), SCRM 525 (2023 & 2024), BME 533 (2023) at USC, and BE-230A (2022) at UCSD.
Awards
2024 NIH, NIBIB Mentored Career Development Award (K01)
2023 Ming Hsieh Institute Research Award (MHIRA, MPI), USC
2023 SBIR/STTR Planning Award (MPI), USC
2018 The Outstanding Thesis Award, Tsinghua University.
2018 The Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate of Tsinghua University.
2018 The Outstanding Graduate of Beijing City, P.R. China.
2017 National Scholarship (Ph.D.), the highest scholarship in China.
2016 Guanghua Scholarship, awarded by Tsinghua University.
2015 Scholarship for Excellent Student, Tsinghua University.
2012 National Scholarship (B.S.), highest scholarship in China.
2012 Outstanding Student Scholarship (Grade 1)
2012 Top Ten Students in School of Life Science, Shandong University.
2010 Outstanding Student Scholarship (Grade 2).
Yuxuan Wang
PhD student in Biomedical Engineering
B.S. in Veterinary Medicine from Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from USC
ywang477@usc.edu
Maurice Tang
PhD student in Biomedical Engineering
B.S. in Biochemistry from Hamilton College.
peiyangt@usc.edu
Vivian Qian
PhD student in Biomedical Engineering
B.A in Neuroscience from Smith College and M.S. in Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, USC
qiyiqian@usc.edu
Junhao Ma
Research Lab Tech
B.S. in immunology from Michigan State University and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from USC
junhaom@usc.edu
Mengmei Zheng
Research Lab Specialist
B.S. from Sichuan University and M.S. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from USC, with years of experience in animal research and ophthalmology biology.
mengmei@usc.edu
John Kim
Master's student in Biomedical Engineering
B.S. in Neuroscience and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Arizona
jkim4384@usc.edu
Alexander (Alex) Choi
Undergraduate Student
Alex is a USC undergraduate student majoring in neuroscience (B.S.) on a pre-medical track.
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