{"id":327,"date":"2026-05-06T15:51:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/liulab\/?page_id=327"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:28:20","slug":"awards-and-honors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/liulab\/awards-and-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards and Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dr. Liu\u2019s selected awards and honors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AWARD NAME<\/strong><\/td>YEAR<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
\u201cExcellent Graduate\u201d, Henan Medical University, China (eight of 500 graduates received this)<\/td>1986<\/td><\/tr>
\u201cExcellence in teaching\u201d, Henan Medical University, China<\/td>1994<\/td><\/tr>
Scholarship of the United States \u201cChinese Medical Foundation\u201d, Beijing Medical University<\/td>1994<\/td><\/tr>
First Prize of Science and Technology Achievements, Education Committee of Henan Province<\/td>1996<\/td><\/tr>
Third Prize of the Achievement of Research on Natural Science, Evaluation Committee of Science and Technology Achievements, Henan Province, China<\/td>1996<\/td><\/tr>
\u201cExcellent Paper\u201d, 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)<\/td>1997<\/td><\/tr>
Post-doctoral Scholarship, Division of Chemical Neurotransmission, Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden<\/td>1999<\/td><\/tr>
Polak Young Investigator Award, Association for Chemoreception Sciences<\/td>2008<\/td><\/tr>
Training Scholarship in \u201cMouse Development, Stem Cells and Cancer\u201d, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory<\/td>2015<\/td><\/tr>
Session Chair, BIT\u2019s World Gene Convention, Shanghai, China<\/td>2016<\/td><\/tr>
Ad hoc reviewer of grants, CSS Study Section, NIDCD NIH<\/td>2018<\/td><\/tr>
Recognized by graduates as a professor who has contributed greatly to his\/her career development and success<\/td>2018<\/td><\/tr>
2024 Member of Award and Program Committee, Association for Chemoreception Sciences<\/td>2021<\/td><\/tr>
Grant Reviewer of Mouse Research Center, National Mouse Genetics Network (UK) <\/td>2021<\/td><\/tr>
Member of Neuro Symposia Steering Committee, Southeast region of USA<\/td>2021<\/td><\/tr>
Grant Reviewer of the University of Nebraska Research Initiative<\/td>2022<\/td><\/tr>
Member of Editorial Board of Nutrient (journal)<\/td>2022-2026<\/td><\/tr>
Ad hoc Reviewer of NIH grants, Chemosensory Fellowship Review, ZDC1 SRB-Y (55) Study Section<\/td>2023<\/td><\/tr>
Ad hoc Reviewer of NIH grants, ZRG1 ICN-T (02) M, Member Conflict: Motor System, Pain, and Olfaction<\/td>2023<\/td><\/tr>
Member of Editorial Board of Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience (journal)<\/td>2023-2026<\/td><\/tr>
Reviewer of NIDCD Clinical Research Center Grant (P50), 2025\/01 ZDC1 SRB-K (19) Study Section<\/td>2024<\/td><\/tr>
Ad hoc Reviewer of NIH grants, Chemosensory Fellowship Review, ZDC1 SRB-Y (59) Study Section<\/td>2024<\/td><\/tr>
Reviewer of NIDCD Clinical Research Center Grant (P50), Study Section \u201cZRG1 ICN-D 40 P\u201d<\/td>2025<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Lab Members\u2019 Awards under Liu\u2019s Supervision<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MEMBER<\/td>AWARD<\/td>YEAR<\/td><\/tr>
Postdoctoral Fellow N. Venkatesan<\/td>Polak Young Investigator Award recognized by the Association for Chemoreception Sciences<\/td>2016<\/td><\/tr>
Undergraduate student Sweksha Gaddam<\/td>1st place of Poster Presentation Award, Regenerative Bioscience and Animal Science Symposium, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA<\/td>2022<\/td><\/tr>
Undergraduate student Ruchi Shah<\/td>3rd place of Poster Presentation Award, Regenerative Bioscience and Animal Science Symposium, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA<\/td>2022<\/td><\/tr>
Undergraduate student Sathya Dillibaru<\/td>3rd place of Poster Presentation Award, Regenerative Bioscience and Animal Science Symposium, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA<\/td>2024<\/td><\/tr>
PhD Candidate Md Mamunur Rashid<\/td>CAES-CVM Trainee Pilot Award<\/td>2025<\/td><\/tr>
Undergraduate student Eli Hewitson and Mariana Aranda<\/td>2nd place of Poster Presentation Award, Regenerative Bioscience and Animal Science Symposium, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA<\/td>2026<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    Dr. Liu\u2019s selected awards and honors AWARD NAME YEAR \u201cExcellent Graduate\u201d, Henan Medical University, China (eight of 500 graduates received this) 1986 \u201cExcellence in teaching\u201d, Henan Medical University, China 1994 Scholarship of the United States \u201cChinese Medical Foundation\u201d, Beijing Medical University 1994 First Prize of Science and Technology Achievements, Education Committee of Henan Province 1996 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1027,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-327","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/liulab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/liulab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/liulab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/liulab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/liulab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/liulab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/liulab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/327\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/liulab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}