Dr. Liang’s research focuses on genomics, epigenomics, precision medicine, regulatory RNA, and cellular metabolism, with a particular emphasis on hypertension and cardiovascular and kidney diseases. Over the last decade, his research group has consistently received annual funding of $2 million, and he is currently the principal investigator on active National Institutes of Health grants totaling more than $16 million. Dr. Liang’s contributions to physiology have been recognized with prestigious awards, including the American Physiological Society’s Henry Pickering Bowditch Award in 2012.