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Guoying Liu, Ph.D.

Program Director
Division of Applied Science and Technology
Democracy Plaza 2, Suite 200
Tel: 301-594-5220
Fax: 301-480-1614
E-mail: liug@mail.nih.gov

Dr. Guoying Liu is the Program Director of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) programs at NIBIB. Dr. Liu received her Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1991 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the in vivo MR Research Center at NIH. From 1995 through 1997, she was a member of the faculty of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Department of Radiology and Department of Neuroscience where her research focused on the development of MR techniques for imaging neuronal activity and connections, and for imaging of diffusion and perfusion in the brain.

From 1997 to 2001, Dr. Liu served as a faculty member at Georgetown University's Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences and Department of Neurology. Her research lab continued the work on MR technical development and application with a focus on human auditory signal processing and phonological organization. From 2001 until joining NIBIB in September of 2008, she served as Program Director of the Cancer Imaging Program at the National Cancer Institute.