Xin Liu
Third Military Medical University, China
Biography
Dr. Xin Liu received his Ph.D. in Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, China in 2010. He serves as an associated professor in the same institute currently. The research interest of Dr. Liu lies mainly on investigating therapeutic intervention of sepsis by means of natural products. Dr. Xin Liu co-operated with his fellow researchers to screen more than 140 traditional Chinese herbs and identify a couple of novel anti-sepsis compounds. The most recent finding of kukoamine B, an alkaloid compound isolated from Cortex Lycii, has been translated into a new drug development study which is now in phaseâ… study in China.