Z. Leonardo Liu

[Grant] Liu Lab received a multi-year research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a Physics-AI framework and an AI-powered device for probing microscale hemorheological hallmarks that trigger life-threatening blood clotting in thrombotic diseases, including heart attacks and strokes.

In collaboration with Maryland, Technion, and Harvard, our work harnessing red blood cells as shear-responsive drug carriers for targeted release to arterial stenosis has been published in Small.

Rukiye successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation on how fluctuating micro-hemorheology affects the molecular and cell biology controlling arterial thrombosis and hemostasis. Congratulations, Dr. Rukiye Canturk!

In collaboration with Sandia National Labs, our work (led by Hugo and Rukiye) on a new suspension-balance theory for concentrated, deformable particle suspension flows through complex geometries has been published in Physical Review Fluids.

[Award] Dr. Liu has been named the 2026 FURA Research Mentor of the Year by the Florida Undergraduate Research Association.

[Award] Leah DuBose was selected as a recipient of the EUREKA Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congrats, Leah!

Our invited book chapter “Decoding Sickle Cell Hemorheology with Supercomputing and AI” has been published by Springer Nature.

Our blood clotting research, powered by exascale supercomputers, has been featured by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (ACCESS, TACC, HPCwire).

Connor successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on computational modeling of crystallization. Congratulations, Dr. Connor Willis!

In collaboration with Georgia Tech, our work on blood mechanics in dilutional coagulopathy was selected as a peer-reviewed paper (in Blood) for presentation at the 67th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting.

[Award] Our work on how blood suspension rheology regulates cellular and molecular mechanobiology (led by Rukiye) received the inaugural Shmuel Einav Award for Mechanobiology at the 10th International Biofluid Mechanics and Mechanobiology Symposium (IBMS10). IBMS, founded by Shmuel Einav and Mory Gharib at Caltech in 2003, is the most prestigious conference in the field of biofluid mechanics and mechanobiology.

[Grant] Liu Lab received a research grant from the Consortium for Medical Marijuana Clinical Outcomes Research to develop a miniaturized flow-based point-of-care device for assessing and mitigating the risks of cannabinoid-associated coagulopathy.

[Award] Dr. Liu received the 2024 Eberhard F. Mammen Young Investigator Award for research excellence in thrombosis and hemostasis, one of six awardees worldwide and the sole recipient from the United States (FSU, FAMU-FSU, FSU ISL).

The Liu Lab welcomes Michael, Emaad, Rojan, and Hugo to the group.

Connor published his first journal article, studying flow-mediated crystallization. Congrats, Connor!

Rukiye and Connor presented two talks at the 2024 APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD) meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, and two more at the 2024 APS Southeastern Section meeting.

[Grant] Liu Lab received a multi-institutional collaborative research grant from the Sandia National Laboratories Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program to develop a physics-data blended modeling framework for flow-induced solidification.

Dr. Liu gave an invited departmental seminar at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch. Thanks to Dr. Yunfeng Chen for the invitation.

Connor and Dr. Liu gave talks at the 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Pan American Congress on Computational Mechanics in Vancouver, Canada.

Dr. Liu published an invited illustrative article on Shear-Induced Platelet Aggregation (SIPA) in Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis (RPTH).

Dr. Liu gave three talks (two invited, one contributed) at the ISTH 2024 Congress in Bangkok, Thailand, including a plenary State-of-the-Art lecture, “Shear-Induced Platelet Aggregation: the Hemodynamic Pathway for Occlusive Thrombosis and Hemostasis.”

Rukiye gave a talk at the 2024 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference (SB3C) at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

Rukiye published her first journal article, a review on platelet biorheology and mechanobiology in heart attacks and strokes. Congratulations, Rukiye!

[Award] JP Romero won an FSU IDEA grant to develop 3-D-printed microfluidic chips with novel surface coatings for cardiovascular disease applications, one of only two College of Engineering awardees among 35 at FSU.

[Award] Dr. Liu was selected by ISTH as a State-of-the-Art Lecturer for the 2024 ISTH Congress in Bangkok, Thailand.

Dr. Liu gave invited talks at the FSU College of Medicine, the FSU Institute for Successful Longevity, and FSU Mechanical Engineering.

ISTH appointed Dr. Liu Co-Chair of the Scientific and Standardization Committee (SSC) on Biorheology for a four-year term beginning 10/01/2023.

Our group attended the 1st Tallahassee Bioengineering Symposium, sharing our findings on thrombosis and hemostasis with the local community.

[Grant] Liu Lab received a research grant through the First-Year Assistant Professor (FYAP) Award from Florida State University.