Mingli Liu is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Immunology (MBI) at Morehouse School of Medicine. She received her Ph.D. degree from Peking Union Medical College, China/University of Tokyo, Japan. She received her postdoctoral training at the Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University.  Her research focus is in the field of cancer biology and focuses on identifying signaling pathways related to cancer stem cells (CSCs) and developing novel therapies to selectively target CSCs.