Dr. Liju Yang is currently a professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and a principal investigator in BRITE at North Carolina Central University. Since joining the faculty of NCCU in February 2006, Dr. Yang has been a productive researcher and dedicated educator who has been successfully establishing herself as an academic investigator in innovative areas of sciences and education.
She has been conducting research in several interdisciplinary areas, including biosensors and biochips for foodborne bacterial pathogen and virus detection, nanomaterials for inactivation of bacterial pathogens and viruses, and 3D culture for cancer cell study. Her current research focus is on nanomaterials for pharmaceutical and biomedical applications.
Over the past 15 years, she has secured a number of research grants from various federal funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Health (NIH), the Army Research Office (ARO), and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), with a total of ~3.45M to date (2020). She has also established collaborations with faculty members in Physics and Chemistry at NCCU, as well as faculty members at Clemson University and North Carolina State University (NCSU).
Dr. Yang has published more than 85 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and many of them engaged students as first author or co-author.