Dr. Andrew Lieberman is the Gerald D. Abrams Professor in the Department of Pathology and Director of Neuropathology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Lieberman received his BS from Duke University and his MD and PhD from the University of Maryland Medical School. 

He completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology and fellowship training in Neuropathology at the University of Pennsylvania. He trained as a research fellow with Dr. Kenneth Fischbeck at the Neurogenetics Branch NINDS, NIH, and then joined the University of Michigan Medical School faculty in 2001. 

He serves as Director of Neuropathology at the University of Michigan Medical Center, and is Co-Director of the Michigan Protein Folding Diseases Initiative. Dr. Lieberman’s research has focused on the mechanism of neurodegeneration in inherited neurological disorders. His laboratory uses cell culture and mouse models to explore the pathogenesis of Kennedy’s disease, a polyglutamine expansion disorder, and Niemann-Pick C, a lysosomal storage disease resulting from impaired lipid trafficking.

U-M Department of Pathology Profile