David R. Liu | |||||||||
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![]() Liu in 2012 | |||||||||
Born | Riverside, California, U.S. | June 12, 1973||||||||
Alma mater | Harvard University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) | ||||||||
Organization | The Liu Group | ||||||||
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Scientific career | |||||||||
Fields | Organic chemistry | ||||||||
Institutions | Harvard University | ||||||||
Doctoral advisor | Peter G. Schultz | ||||||||
Other academic advisors | E.J. Corey | ||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 劉如謙 | ||||||||
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David Ruchien Liu (born 1973) is an American molecular biologist and chemist. He is the Richard Merkin Professor, Director of the Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, and Vice-Chair of the Faculty at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University; and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.[1]