Xue Zhong Liu
Vice Chair
University of Miami
USA
Biography
Dr. Liu, an internationally renowned surgeon-scientist, is the Leonard M. Miller Professor and Vice Chair of Otolaryngology. He has had a career long interest in genetic deafness and has made many significant contributions. He is the author of more than 200 scientific papers in top journals. His team has discovered 15 percent of all the new genes related to deafness in the world. His exemplary translational research on hereditary hearing loss from basic sciences to clinical application (bench to bedside) for the past three years, ranking in the top 1 percent of NIH-funded physician-scientists in the auditory field.
Research Interest
Otolaryngology,whole genome sequencing,hearing loss (