Edwin Liu

Dr. Edwin Liu is Taplin Endowed Chair for Celiac Disease, Director, Colorado Center for Celiac Disease, and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado. His special area of interest in celiac disease relates to high-risk and general population screening. At Children’s Hospital Colorado since 1999, his research in the laboratory of Dr. George Eisenbarth studied potential vaccine therapies using insulin autoantigens for type 1 diabetes and also learning about autoantibody assays for celiac disease. Dr. Liu has been involved in the large prospective Type 1 Diabetes and Celiac Disease birth cohort studies DAISY (Diabetes Autoimmunity Study of the Young) and the TEDDY (The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young) studies. As director of the Colorado Center for Celiac Disease, he treats individuals with celiac disease and gluten-related disorders. Dr. Liu received his MD from the Boston University School of Medicine.