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Guiming Liu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences

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Dr. Liu earned his Ph.D. from China Medical University, China, in 2002.

  • 2023-present, Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED), Rootstown, OH
  • 2018-2023, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, MetroHealth Medical Center, CWRU, Cleveland, OH
  • 2015-2018, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, MetroHealth Medical Center, CWRU, Cleveland, OH
  • 2009-2015, Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland, OH
  • 2008-2009, Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
  • 2007-2008, Project Scientist, Department of BME & Urology, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
  • 2005-2007, Research Associate, Department of BME & Urology, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
  • 2002-2005, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cancer Biology & Urology, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

Foundations of Medicine (FOM)
Cardiovascular, Pulmonary and Renal (CPR)
Diagnosis and Treatment (D&T)
Physician, Patient & Community (PPC)

Oncel S, Liu G, Kwantwi L, Vomhof-DeKrey EE, Gallardo-Macias R, Gurvich VJ, Basson MD. FAK-Activated Mucosal Healing Promotes Resistance to Reinjury. Cells. 2026, 15(1):16.

Maher S, Bayachou M, Fu P, Hijaz A, Liu G, Focal adhesion kinase activation is involved in contractile stimulation-induced detrusor muscle contraction in mice. European Journal of Pharmacology, 2023, 952: 175807.

Erdogan BR, Liu G, Arioglu-Inan E, Michel MC. Established and emerging treatments for diabetes-associated lower urinary tract dysfunction. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg’s Archives of Pharmacology. 2022, 395(8): 887-906.

Elrashidy RA, Kavran M, Ali SI, Asker ME, Mohamed HE, Daneshgari F, Liu G. Smooth muscle-specific deletion of MnSOD exacerbates diabetes-induced bladder dysfunction in mice, American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology, 2019, 317(4): F906-F912.

Xiao N, Wang Z, Huang Y, Daneshgari F, Liu G. Roles of polyuria and hyperglycemia on bladder dysfunction in diabetes. Journal of Urology. 2013, 189(3):1130-6.

  • Investigate the pathogenesis of lower urinary tract dysfunction using animal models.
  • Examine the mechanisms of urological complications in obesity and diabetes, including bladder dysfunction, urinary incontinence, erectile dysfunction, and urinary tract infection
  • Develop new treatments for gastrointestinal injury

Serving on the editorial boards of following journals:

  • Advances in Medicine (2013-);
  • American Journal of Clinical and Experimental Urology (2021-);
  • BioMed Research International (2013-);
  • Frontiers in Oncology (2020-);
  • Frontiers in Pharmacology (2020-);
  • Frontiers in Surgery (2021-)

NIH/NIDDK R01 DK110567, Co-Principal Investigator, Phenotypes and mechanisms of urinary incontinence in obesity/pre-type 2 diabetes. 2016-2022

NIH/NIDDK U24 DK076169-07S1, PI of subaward 25732-6, Adipose-derived MSCs treatment of diabetes and diabetic bladder dysfunction, 2012-2014

American Diabetes Association (ADA) Junior Faculty Award 1-10-JF-29, Mechanisms of bladder dysfunction in diabetes. 2010-2013

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF) Postdoctoral Fellowship Award 3-2005-252, Bladder dysfunction in type 1 diabetes. 2005-2007

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