Yuan Liu, DDS, MS, PhD
Yuan Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oral Health Sciences at the Temple University Kornberg School of Dentistry, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at School of Dentistry University of Pennsylvania. She holds a DDS (2003), MS (2005), and PhD (2009) in oral microbiology from West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University. She completed her last two years of PhD study (2007-2009) at the University of Iowa School of Dentistry. After graduation, she became a faculty in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry, West China College of Stomatology and was promoted as Vice-director of the department in 2011. From 2014 to 2017, she conducted postdoctoral research at Penn Dental Medicine where she developed her research focus on two well-defined fronts: Disease mechanisms and Therapeutic strategies. She was then promoted to instructor at PDM and completed her faculty DMD (2023) before joining Kornberg School of Dentistry.
Yuan has a background in oral microbiology and translational research. She intends to develop a career in bridging clinical and translational research and translate research findings into innovative strategies for children’s oral health. She was recently awarded a K23 Career Development Award from NIH/NIDCR to conduct research focusing on early oral fungal infection and childhood caries. She has published more than 60 manuscripts in top-tier journals including Nature Communications, Science Robotics, Advanced Materials, PNAS, ACS Nano, and Journal of Dental Research (h-index: 34). Additionally, she won several prestigious-competitive awards for investigators conducting dental/oral research in US/Canada.
