Morehouse School of Medicine
Atlanta, United States
Mingli Liu, MD. PhD. is an Assistant Professor at Morehouse School of Medicine. The Liu lab mainly focuses on researching cell signaling pathways associated with brain cancer, especially cell differentiation and tumor progression. The current standard of care of surgery and radiochemotherapy for glioblastomas (GBM) is lacking and does not result in an improved prognosis. Accumulating evidence shows that the failure of using current chemo- and radiotherapies to treat GBM and the resultant high tumor recurrence are attributed to the presence of a small subpopulation of glioma stem cells (GSC), which is characterized by their stem cell-like properties and aggressive behavior.