Chen Liu
Anthony N. Brady Professor of Pathology; Chair, Pathology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief of Pathology, Yale New Haven Hospital
Elected to the Academy in 2021
Education
Tong Liao Medical College (China), 1985, MD; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1993, PhD, Pathology.
Professional Area
Practicing surgical pathologist who is specialized in gastrointestinal tract, liver and pancreas; research expertise includes virology, epigenetics, cancer biology and immunology; well recognized mouse pathologist.
Citation
For Seminal contributions to our understanding of how hepatitis C virus interacts with host cells, causes liver injury, and initiates liver cancer; also for development of a novel nanozyme vaccines and engineered immune cells for cancer therapy, the latter of which is approved for human clinical trials.