David R. Liu Biography

David R. Liu is Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and a Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Liu was born in 1973 in Riverside California. He performed research on sterol biosynthesis under Professor E. J. Corey's guidance throughout his undergraduate years. Liu graduated first in his class at Harvard in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry before entering the Ph.D. program at U. C. Berkeley. In the group of Professor Peter Schultz Liu initiated the first general effort to expand the genetic code in living cells. He earned his Ph.D. in 1999 and became Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University in the same year. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2003 and to Full Professor in 2005. Liu was also appointed as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in 2005 and joined the JASONs academic advisors to the U.S. government on science and technology in 2009.
Liu has taught more than 2500 undergraduates and graduate students in the classroom and has earned three university-wide distinctions for undergraduate and graduate student teaching at Harvard including the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize in 2007 the Roslyn Abramson Award in 2003 and a Harvard College Professorship in 2007. His undergraduate and graduate students have earned university-wide and national distinctions for their thesis research including three Thomas T. Hoopes prizes and one Lawrence J. Henderson Prize at Harvard the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists the Harold W. Weintraub Graduate Student Award and the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Doctoral Thesis Prize.

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