Dr. Benjamin M. Liu is the Assistant Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory and the
Infectious Disease Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory of Children's National
Hospital in Washington, D.C., USA. He is also an Assistant Professor of
Pathology, Pediatrics, and Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine at George
Washington University. After receiving his medical degree and a Ph.D. in
microbiology and immunology, Dr. Liu completed a basic research postdoctoral
fellowship at the NIAID of NIH in Bethesda, MD, where he studied viral
infectious diseases and virus-host interactions. Then he completed a clinical
fellowship in Medical and Public Health Microbiology at the University of Utah
Health and ARUP Laboratories in Salt Lake City, UT. Dr. Liu's research
interests include virus-host cell interactions, viral pathogenesis, novel
antiviral development, antiviral resistance testing, and the development/validation
of novel molecular tests for laboratory-based diagnosis of infectious diseases.
His work has been continuously supported by NIH, CDC, American Heart Association. He
has published multiple peer-reviewed journal articles, manuscripts, book
chapters, clinical guidelines, and conference abstracts. Dr. Liu is a
lifetime member of the American Society for Virology (ASV) and an elected member of
the Society for Pediatric Research. He has been awarded several awards from different
professional societies and serves as a member of an NIH study section.
