Dr. Wanqing Liu, professor of pharmaceutical sciences in the Wayne State University EugeneApplebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and of pharmacology in Wayne State’s School of Medicine, received a $3 million, five-year award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health. The study, “Interaction between Genome and Heavy Metals in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease,” aims to discover and validate the gene Х heavy metal (GXM) interactions in human livers and to understand their role in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). see details at https://research.wayne.edu/news/nih-awards-3m-to-wayne-state-and-henry-ford-health-to-impact-research-on-liver-disease-53972

Dr. Wanqing Liu’s research can be checked out at here https://cphs.wayne.edu/profile/gm2360