Xuewu Liu, PhD

Research Professor of Nanomedicine, Academic Institute
Full Research Member, Research Institute
Department of Nanomedicine
Cancer Center
Houston Methodist

5768 Citations
42 h-Index

Research output per year

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Personal profile

Dr. Xuewu Liu worked as an engineer in the optics industry for two years before undertaking postdoctoral training at the Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy at IUPUI Indianapolis. He then joined Ohio State University as a senior research associate in nanomedicine. He was appointed assistant professor of nanomedicine and biomedical engineering at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston in 2006. In 2010, Dr. Liu joined to The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, to direct the nanoengineering core.

Dr. Xuewu Liu is a leading scientist in silicon nanotechnology, with extensive experience in materials science, optics, microfabrication and nanomedicine. He directs research and development of silicon based biomedical nanotechnology, and coordinates a nanoengineering team to support biomedical research at the institute levels. The nanomedicine platforms he has developed include porous silicon particles, nanowire barcodes, an implantable nanochannel delivery system, nanowire enhanced nanofluidic devices, and nanoporous proteomic chips. Dr. Liu had been issued 8 US patents, and published over 100 peer-reviewed journal papers, of which >20 were highlighted as journal cover articles.

Research interests

Dr. Liu’s research focus is the development of silicon based nanotechnology platforms for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human disease. His current interests include mass production of porous silicon particles, surface chemistry of porous silicon, nanowire theranostic platforms, multifunctional nanoparticles, and microfluidics devices for isolation and analysis of exosomes.

Education/Academic qualification

Postdoctoral Associate, Heart and Lung Research Institute

Biological Microscopy, Postdoctoral Associate, Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy, Indianapolis, IN

Nuclear Physics, MS, Jilin University

Physics, PhD, Kent State University

Research Area Keywords

Nanomedicine
Cancer

Free-text keywords

Silicon nanotechnology
Drug delivery nanoparticles
Theranostics
Biological microfluidics

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Projects

3 Active
8 Finished

A tunable nanofluidic drug delivery platform for in vivo research

Grattoni, A. & Liu, X.

4/15/18 → 1/31/22

Project: Federal Funding Agencies

Center for Immunotherapeutic Transport Oncophysics

Shen, H., Herzog, T., Kojic, M., Li, Z., Liu, X., Schrefler, B. A., Tasciotti, E., Wang, R. & Ziemys, A.

National Institutes of Health

8/29/16 → 7/31/21

Project: Federal Funding Agencies

Tumor vasculature-targeted nanotherapeutics for DNA damage response

Shen, H., Jenkins, N. A., Liu, X., Mitra, S. & Yang, C.

National Cancer Institute

12/1/15 → 5/31/21

Project: Federal Funding Agencies

A Nanodrug for the Cure of Metastatic Breast Cancer

Shen, H., Chang, J. C., Ensor, Jr., J. E. & Liu, X.

7/15/17 → 2/29/20

Project: Federal Funding Agencies

Identification of novel immune targets and neoantigens for development of immunotherapy for breast cancer

Wang, R., Chang, J. C., Liu, X. & Wang, H.

12/1/16 → 11/30/19

Project: State

Research Output

5768 Citations
42 h-Index
133 Article
9 Review article
3 Conference contribution
2 Patent
2 More
- 1 Comment/debate
- 1 Letter

An injectable nanoparticle generator enhances delivery of cancer therapeutics

Xu, R., Zhang, G., Mai, J., Deng, X., Segura-Ibarra, V., Wu, S., Shen, J., Liu, H., Hu, Z., Chen, L., Huang, Y., Koay, E., Huang, Y., Liu, J., Ensor, J. E., Blanco, E., Liu, X., Ferrari, M. & Shen, H., Apr 1 2016, In : Nature Biotechnology. 34, 4, p. 414-418 5 p.