LIU Jiankang
Title: Professor and Dean, School of Life Science,
        Xi’an Jiaotong University
        Adjunct Professor, University of Kentucky
Address: 28 W. Xianning Road, Xi’an 710049, China
          236 Bosomworth Health Sciences Research Building,
          Lexington, KY 40536, USA
Tel: +8625- 82665429
Email: j.liu@mail.xjtu.edu.cn / jiankang.liu@uky.edu
Education Background:
    1994-1996 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,University of California at Berkeley, USA
    1989-1994 Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Okayama University Medical School, Japan
    1978-1982 B.S. in Chemistry, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Working Experiences:
    2011-present Dean, School of Life Science; Professor and Director of the Institute of Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University
    2008-present Professor, Graduate Center for Toxicology, University of Kentucky,College of Medicine, USA
    2006-2008  Associate Professor, Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia,University of California at Irvine, USA
    2003-2008  Guest Professor and Director of the Lab of Nutrition and Aging,Institute for Nutritional Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
    2003-2006  Assistant Staff Scientist, Children Hospital Oakland Research Institute,Research Professor, University of California at Berkeley, USA
    2000-2002  Assistant Staff Scientist, Children Hospital Oakland Research Institute, USA
    1997-1999  Assistant Researcher, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Research Interests:
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of aging, stress, and age-/stress- associated degenerative diseases with a focus on mitochondrial targeting nutrients/drugs on mitochondrial metabolism
Professional Activities:
2010 International Scientific Committee Member, 7th Meeting of Asian Society for Mitochondrial Research and Medicine Jointly with Japan-Mit’2010, Fukuoka, Japan; Chair of Organizing Committee, International Symposium on Mitochondrion and China Mit’ 2010, Xi’an, China. Also, acting as ad hoc manuscript reviewer for more than 40 international journals.
2009 Vice Chair of the Organizing Committee, Xi’an Satellite Meeting of the 21st IUBMB and 12th FAOBMB International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Xi’an, China; Expert Advisory Board Member, Neural Regeneration Research; Executive Committee Member, China Universe Society Space Biology Branch.