Program Officer
Qi-Ying Liu, M.D., M.S.
Focus Area
Biographical Summary
Dr. Qi-Ying Liu is a Program Officer in the Division of Neuroscience and Behavior at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Dr. Liu manages an extramural alcohol research grant portfolio in the areas of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Neuromodulation, Synaptic Plasticity, Neuroadaptation, Neurocircuitry, and Neuropharmacology.
Dr. Liu is a member of multiple teams of the NIH Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. He also represents NIAAA on several other Trans-NIH and Interagency activities, including The NIH Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network (BPN), the Interagency Collaborative to Advance Research in Epilepsy (ICARE), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)–Department of Defense (DOD)–Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Pain Management Collaboratory (PMC).
Dr. Liu is the contact person for F32 grants. He cochairs the NIAAA Centers and Training (C&T) Working Group.
Dr. Liu received his medical degree from Zhengzhou University School of Medicine and received graduate training in pharmacology from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He did a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Neurophysiology, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Dr. Liu was an Associate Professor at the Blanchette Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University before joining NIH as a Program Officer in 2003.