Dr. Liu’s selected awards and honors
| AWARD NAME | YEAR |
| “Excellent Graduate”, Henan Medical University, China (eight of 500 graduates received this) | 1986 |
| “Excellence in teaching”, Henan Medical University, China | 1994 |
| Scholarship of the United States “Chinese Medical Foundation”, Beijing Medical University | 1994 |
| First Prize of Science and Technology Achievements, Education Committee of Henan Province | 1996 |
| Third Prize of the Achievement of Research on Natural Science, Evaluation Committee of Science and Technology Achievements, Henan Province, China | 1996 |
| “Excellent Paper”, Xi-Jun Zhang Foundation, Chinese Association for Physiological Sciences, China (The peripheral nervous origin of rat spinal dorsal potentials and influences of brain stem nuclei activation on the CDP waves) | 1997 |
| Post-doctoral Scholarship, Division of Chemical Neurotransmission, Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden | 1999 |
| Polak Young Investigator Award, Association for Chemoreception Sciences | 2008 |
| Training Scholarship in “Mouse Development, Stem Cells and Cancer”, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | 2015 |
| Session Chair, BIT’s World Gene Convention, Shanghai, China | 2016 |
| Ad hoc reviewer of grants, CSS Study Section, NIDCD NIH | 2018 |
| Recognized by graduates as a professor who has contributed greatly to his/her career development and success | 2018 |
| 2024 Member of Award and Program Committee, Association for Chemoreception Sciences | 2021 |
| Grant Reviewer of Mouse Research Center, National Mouse Genetics Network (UK) | 2021 |
| Member of Neuro Symposia Steering Committee, Southeast region of USA | 2021 |
| Grant Reviewer of the University of Nebraska Research Initiative | 2022 |
| Member of Editorial Board of Nutrient (journal) | 2022-2026 |
| Ad hoc Reviewer of NIH grants, Chemosensory Fellowship Review, ZDC1 SRB-Y (55) Study Section | 2023 |
| Ad hoc Reviewer of NIH grants, ZRG1 ICN-T (02) M, Member Conflict: Motor System, Pain, and Olfaction | 2023 |
| Member of Editorial Board of Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience (journal) | 2023-2026 |
| Reviewer of NIDCD Clinical Research Center Grant (P50), 2025/01 ZDC1 SRB-K (19) Study Section | 2024 |
| Ad hoc Reviewer of NIH grants, Chemosensory Fellowship Review, ZDC1 SRB-Y (59) Study Section | 2024 |
| Reviewer of NIDCD Clinical Research Center Grant (P50), Study Section “ZRG1 ICN-D 40 P” | 2025 |
Lab Members’ Awards under Liu’s Supervision
| MEMBER | AWARD | YEAR |
| Postdoctoral Fellow N. Venkatesan | Polak Young Investigator Award recognized by the Association for Chemoreception Sciences | 2016 |
| Undergraduate student Sweksha Gaddam | 1st place of Poster Presentation Award, Regenerative Bioscience and Animal Science Symposium, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA | 2022 |
| Undergraduate student Ruchi Shah | 3rd place of Poster Presentation Award, Regenerative Bioscience and Animal Science Symposium, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA | 2022 |
| Undergraduate student Sathya Dillibaru | 3rd place of Poster Presentation Award, Regenerative Bioscience and Animal Science Symposium, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA | 2024 |
| PhD Candidate Md Mamunur Rashid | CAES-CVM Trainee Pilot Award | 2025 |
| Undergraduate student Eli Hewitson and Mariana Aranda | 2nd place of Poster Presentation Award, Regenerative Bioscience and Animal Science Symposium, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA | 2026 |