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Dr Liu Huiqing is Research
Assistant Professor at Rutgers University’s
BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology.
Her primary research interest is cancer
bioinformatics, in which she is developing
and applying bioinformatics tools to
translational research in biomedicine with
emphasis on cancer biology.
Having joined Rutgers University for barely
a year, Huiqing has already won two awards
in Rutgers’ home state of New Jersey: the
2008 New Jersey Cancer Research Awards for
Scientific Excellence, and the Gallo Award
at the 2008 New Jersey Annual Retreat on
Cancer Research.
The two awards are the latest additions to
the accolades that Huiqing has earned. In
2003, she was in a team of four that won the
Asian Innovation Gold Award organised by Far
Eastern Economic Review magazine for their
research work on paediatric leukemia.
Prior to joining Rutgers in July 2007, she
was a post-doctoral research associate at
Computational Systems Biology Lab in the
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Department at University of Georgia.
Huiqing received her master and PhD degrees
from NUS School of Computing in 1997 and
2004, respectively. She had furthered her
studies at NUS after earning a Master of
Engineering (Systems Engineering) degree in
1994 from Xidian University and a Bachelor
of Economics (Quantitative Economics) in
1991 from Huazhong University of Science and
Technology in China.
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