Email

yl10@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Medicine - Epidemiology & Population Sciences
Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States

Addresses

Baylor College of Medicine (Office)

One Baylor Plaza
Jewish Bldg 619D
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-2956

Professional Interests

• Cancer epidemiology and prevention
• Risk prediction, early detection and treatment response
• Multi-omics and molecular biomarkers

Websites

Selected Publications

• Liu Y, Ajami NJ, El-Serag HB, et al "Dietary quality and the colonic mucosa-associated gut microbiome in humans." Am J Clin Nutr. 2019 Sep;110(3):701-712. Pubmed PMID: 31291462
• Wefel JS, Zhou R, Sulman EP ... Liu Y (corresponding) "Genetic modulation of longitudinal change in neurocognitive function among adult glioma patients." J Neurooncol.. 2022 Jan;156(1):185-193. Pubmed PMID: 34817796
• Liu Y, Kramer JR, Sandulache VC, et al "Immunogenetic Determinants of Susceptibility to Head and Neck Cancer in the Million Veteran Program Cohort." Cancer Res.. 2023 Feb 3;386-397. Pubmed PMID: 36378845
• Liu Y, O'Brien JL, Ajami NJ, et al. "Lung tissue microbial profile in lung cancer is distinct from emphysema." J Cancer Res.. 2018;8(9):1775-1787. Pubmed PMID: 30323970

Memberships

American Association of Cancer Research (AACR)

Active member (01/2013)

International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)

Active member (06/2015)

American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)

(05/2016)

Funding

Intratumoral microbiota and immune predictors of response to immunotherapy in lung cancer - #R01 CA285882

(08/01/2024 - 07/31/2029) NIH/NCI

Identifying germline pathogenic variants in familial lung cancer among African Americans - #R03 CA282953

(03/01/2024 - 02/28/2026) NIH/NCI

Evaluating etiological impact of metatranscriptomic and immunological features for lung cancer - #R03 CA262911

(07/01/2021 - 06/30/2023) NIH/NCI

Lung Cancer Prediction Models Incorporating Exome Data from Extreme Phenotypes - #K07 CA181480

(09/01/2014 - 08/31/2019) Grant funding from NIH/NCI - K07