Charles Liu

Dr. Charles Liu MD received his undergraduate education in chemical engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his Ph.D. in chemical/bioengineering at Rice University before attending medical school at Yale University School of Medicine. He received his neurosurgical training at the USC Affiliated Hospitals. He is presently engaged in a broad spectrum of clinical and research activities combining engineering and medicine to develop novel approaches to restore function to the damaged nervous system. He is presently appointed as a professor of neurological surgery, neurology, psychiatry, urology, biokinesiology, and biomedical engineering, where he also serves as director of the USC Neurorestoration Center. He continues to play a leadership role at Rancho Los Amgios National Rehabilitation Center, where he serves as chair of neurosurgery and orthopedics as well as chief of innovation and research. He has also had long appointments on the faculty of Caltech as visiting associate. Dr. Liu has played a major role in a large number of transformative research studies in regenerative medicine, neuroprosthetics, and neuromodulation/task-specific practice which have been published in high-impact journals such as Science, Nature-BME, Nature-Neuroscience, and Lancet.