Xue Liang

Company: Merck Exploratory Science Center
Job title: Senior Scientist, Microbiome/ Molecular Discovery
Bio:
Dr. Xue Liang is a Senior Scientist focusing on Microbiome projects at the Merck Exploratory Science Center. She has over 7 years of experience in microbiome research and is co-leading several programs in her current role to evaluate the impact of microbiome in health and disease, and how it influence therapeutic response. She has published multiple publications in this field. She earned her B.S. in Biological Sciences from Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University, and Ph.D. from the Department of Pharmacology in the laboratory of Dr. Garret A. FitzGerald at the University of Pennsylvania.