04/09/2026
Undergraduate student Simon Yin has been awarded an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) to support his summer research in the Liu Lab. Congratulations, Simon! We’re so excited to have you continuing with us this summer!
03/28/2026
Upcoming graduate student Zexi Yuan has been awarded a Medicine Merit Scholarship! He will join the Liu Lab as an MSc candidate in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Ottawa starting Fall 2026. Congratulations, Zexi! We look forward to having you!
03/05/2026
Visiting scholar Kaixiang Ni has been awarded a uOttawa Admission Scholarship to continue in the Liu Lab as a PhD student in Neuroscience starting Fall 2026. Congratulations, Kaixiang! We’re excited to have you continue with us!
02/19/2026
Liu Lab received an ELEVATE Seed Grant to support our work on humanized models to explore the neuroimmune interface in disease, in collaboration with Dr. David Cook, Dr. David Picketts, and Dr. Pierre Mattar.
01/10/2026
We are excited to welcome Dr. Kaixiang Ni to the Liu Lab as a visting scholar! Before joining the Liu Lab, Kaixiang trained in neurosurgery and received his MSc in Nanjing Medical School.
01/05/2026
We are excited to welcome Dr. Xiubo Jiang to the Liu Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow! Before joining the Liu Lab, Xiubo worked at the National Center for Biomedical Analysis in Beijing, China, focusing on cancer metastasis.
01/01/2026
We are excited to welcome Sarah Dilmaghani, Simon Yin, and Khwaish Sharma to the Liu Lab! Sarah joins as a Research Assistant, and Simon and Khwaish join as undergraduate trainees.
2025
11/19/2025
Check out the OHRI News feature highlighting our work on gene regulation in the brain and neurological disease.
11/04/2025
Our collaborative work with the Jaklenec Lab and Langer Lab at MIT, led by Dr. Erika Wang, is now officially online. We are thrilled to see this study published and highlighted by MIT News.
09/01/2025
Liu Lab received the IRSF Independence Award to support our research on MECP2 in Rett syndrome at OHRI.
08/19/2025
Liu Lab launched in August 2025 at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, within the Regenerative Medicine and Neuroscience Programs, and at the University of Ottawa. We are excited to begin this new chapter and build a research program in stem cell biology, epigenetics, and neurodevelopmental disease.