ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2020
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
David Liu, MD, MPH, MS, is a medical oncologist and computational biologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute with affiliations at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Broad Institute. He received a BA in Economics and MS in Computer Science at Stanford University and was a software engineer and data analyst at Amazon.com before changing careers and going into medicine, receiving an MD and MPH (concentration in Biostatistics and Epidemiology) from Johns Hopkins. He did his residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital, hematology/medical oncology fellowship at DFCI/Harvard CancerCare, and postdoctoral training in Dr. Eliezer Van Allen’s lab.
His lab focuses on computational approaches to (1) dissect clinical tumor evolution and heterogeneity; and (2) build integrated clinical and molecular models to predict response to therapy across tumor types and therapies.
He has received the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Physician-Scientist Training Grant, Society for Immunotherapy of Cancers Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, NIH K08 career development award, Conquer Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award, and American Association of Cancer Research Rising Stars award.