Dr. Shiying Liu is a post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences and is affiliated with the Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology. Dr. Liu has a Bachelor's of Science from Fudan University and a Masters of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Liu was a PhD candidate in the Epidemiology and Biostatistics PhD program administered by the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at Case Western Reserve University (2019-2025). Dr. Liu's PhD was conferred in May 2025, and she was selected as the 2025 Doctoral Excellence Award in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. The CWRU Doctoral Excellence Awards are given to one graduating student per School of Medicine PhD program exhibits "exceptional qualities in research, scholarship, service, and collaboration."
As a graduate student, Dr. Liu was selected as one of ten scholarship awardees for the Diana Jacobs Kalman/AFAR Scholarship for Research in the Biology of Aging in 2021. Shiying was also selected for the CWRU PQHS Olson Award for Outstanding student in Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology in 2022 and 2023, and she was the Spring 2024 CWRU Biomedical Graduate Student Organization (BGSO) Student of the Semester.
Recent Publications
- Liu, S, Bush, WS, Akinyemi, RO, Byrd, GS, Caban-Holt, AM, Rajabli, F, Reitz, C, Kunkle, BW, Tosto, G, Vance, JM et al.. Alzheimer disease is (sometimes) highly heritable: Drivers of variation in heritability estimates for binary traits, a systematic review. medRxiv 2025; : . PubMed PMID:40343016 PubMed Central PMC12060970.
- Liu, S, Gunzler, DD, Gunzler, SA, Crawford, DC, Briggs, FBS. Exploring the early drivers of pain in Parkinson's disease. Sci Rep 2025; 15 (1): 6212. PubMed PMID:39979466 PubMed Central PMC11842595.
- Drouet, DE, Liu, S, Crawford, DC. Assessment of multi-population polygenic risk scores for lipid traits in African Americans. PeerJ 2023; 11 : e14910. PubMed PMID:37214096 PubMed Central PMC10198155.
- Liu, S, Bush, WS, Miskimen, K, Gonzalez-Vicente, A, Bailey, JNC, Konidari, I, McCauley, JL, Sedor, JR, O'Toole, JF, Crawford, DC et al.. T-cell receptor diversity in minimal change disease in the NEPTUNE study. Pediatr Nephrol 2023; 38 (4): 1115-1126. PubMed PMID:35943576 PubMed Central PMC10037226.
- Liu, S, Crawford, DC. Maturation and application of phenome-wide association studies. Trends Genet 2022; 38 (4): 353-363. PubMed PMID:34991903 PubMed Central PMC8930498.
- Kang, Y, Zhou, Y, Li, Y, Han, Y, Xu, J, Niu, W, Li, Z, Liu, S, Feng, H, Huang, W et al.. A human forebrain organoid model of fragile X syndrome exhibits altered neurogenesis and highlights new treatment strategies. Nat Neurosci 2021; 24 (10): 1377-1391. PubMed PMID:34413513 PubMed Central PMC8484073.
- Zheng, Y, Wang, LB, Sun, SF, Liu, SY, Liu, MJ, Lin, J. Phylogenetic and ion-response analyses reveal a relationship between gene expansion and functional divergence in the Ca2+/cation antiporter family in Angiosperms. Plant Mol Biol 2021; 105 (3): 303-320. PubMed PMID:33123851 .
- Sun, Z, Liu, S, Kharlamov, EA, Miller, ER, Kelly, KM. Hippocampal neuropeptide Y protein expression following controlled cortical impact and posttraumatic epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav 2018; 87 : 188-194. PubMed PMID:30146352 .
