Li Liu is Associate Professor of Department of Radiology of UT Southwestern Medical Center. After completing her Ph.D. from Nankai University in Tianjin, China and postdoctoral fellowship training in Molecular Pharmacology at the Max Planck Chemical and Ecology Institute in Jena, Germany, in Genetics and Microbiology at the University of Florida, and in Molecular Imaging at UT Southwestern. Dr. Liu’s research focuses on the development and application of reporter genes and molecular gene reporters for multimodality imaging, particularly related to cancer in small animal models. Dynamic imaging provides effective insight into tumor progression and the response to therapy, particularly as applied to the development of vascular disputing agents in vivo. Most recently, she has explored multispectral optoacoustic tomography (MSOT) to provide real-time noninvasive insights into the vasculature of malignant tumors with respect to experimental drugs.