Rate My Professor Jun-Ping Liu

Jun-Ping Liu, MD (1985) and PhD (1992), serves as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Immunology at Monash University, Alfred Hospital. He completed his medical education at Bethune Medical University (1977-1985) in China, followed by studies at Beijing Medical University (1985-1987), PhD research at Monash University (1987-1991), and postdoctoral training at John Hunter Hospital, University of Newcastle (1992-1995). His career at Monash began as Queen Elizabeth II Fellow and Senior Research Fellow funded by ARC and NHMRC (1996-2001), advancing to Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor, where he coordinated the Cell Biology Teaching Program (2002-2010). From 2011, he holds professorial positions including Professor in the Department of Immunology at Monash University, Professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Melbourne, and Founding Director of the Institute of Ageing Research at Hangzhou Normal University. He also served as Chief Scientist for the National Research Program on 'Telomere Proteins and Disease' by China's Ministry of Science and Technology (2012-2016).

Liu's research focuses on cell aging diseases, subcellular structures in premature aging, telomere binding proteins, and ATPase transporters. He has led NHMRC-funded projects such as investigations into manganese homeostasis in the liver and a novel manganese transporter in lysosomes related to Niemann-Pick type-C disease. Key publications include 'A MAPK cascade couples maternal mRNA translation and degradation to meiotic cell cycle progression in mouse oocytes' (2017), 'Effects of the central potassium ions on the G-quadruplex and stabilizer binding' (2017), 'Impulse control disorder, lysosomal malfunction and ATP13A2 insufficiency in Parkinsonism' (2017), 'TGF-beta receptor mediated telomerase inhibition, telomere shortening and breast cancer cell senescence' (2017), and 'Novel strategies for molecular targeting to cancer' (2016). His contributions have earned awards including the Beckman Coulter Discovery Science Award (2009) from the Australian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Servier Award (1996) from the Endocrine Society of Australia, Australian Life Sciences Research Award (1995), AW Campbell Award for Neuroscience (1995), and Inaugural NARF Post-doctoral Investigator Award (1995). Liu serves as Editor-in-Chief of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology (2013 onwards) and President of the Australia Chinese Association for Biomedical Sciences (2004 onwards).