Shawn Liu
Assistant Professor at Columbia University in the City of New York
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Liu is Joan and Paul Marks, MD '49 Assistant Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics at Columbia University, leading a lab that develops epigenome editing tools to probe biology and address human disease. With nine years of research experience and a postdoc at MIT in Rudolf Jaenisch’s lab, he blends deep molecular expertise with translational ambition. His work is supported by competitive fellowships such as the Damon Runyon Fellowship, reflecting a strong record of independent funding and high-impact inquiry. Trained in chemistry and biology across Nankai, Purdue, and Stanford, he is comfortable crossing disciplinary boundaries from chemistry to genomics. Based in Cambridge, MA while running a Columbia lab, he maintains a collaborative, cross-institutional research footprint. Beyond tool development, his group emphasizes using epigenome editing to reveal unexpected biology that could inform novel therapies.
9 years of coding experience
Chemistry, Chemistry at Nankai UniversityBiology, Biology at Purdue UniversityBiology, General, Biology, General at Stanford UniversityGithub contributions (1)
TheBeachLab/mods
May 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:6 commits in 1 year 5 months
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