David Liu

It was DNA replication that first captured Isaac Witte’s scientific imagination as a high school student in Overland Park, Kansas. “It’s this orchestration of so many different proteins and molecules that come together to do this core element of life,” he...

David Liu, the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator will be a co-recipient of the Harvey Prize in Science and Technology in Chemistry for his translation of scientific discoveries into...

A team of researchers at the Broad Institute, led by gene-editing pioneer David Liu, has developed a new genome-editing strategy that could potentially lead to a one-time treatment for multiple unrelated genetic diseases. Gene-editing medicines are often...

Harvard scientists help parents of 10-year-old patient escalate fight against rare neurological disorder Nina Frost knows that she might be too late to cure her daughter, but she keeps up the fight — one day, her work might transform the life of another...

Molecular biologist David Liu has won the newly established Montrone-Seigel Prize for Biological Sciences from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health for his breakthrough discoveries in gene editing. “I’m deeply honored by this recognition...

By the time they are a few months old, infants born with alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) begin experiencing terrifying episodes of paralysis and seizures, and will soon show developmental delays and intellectual disability. There is no cure or...

David Liu has been having a good run. On May 15, the New England Journal of Medicine published what has become a high-profile case of a 5-month-old boy called KJ with a deadly genetic disorder, who became the first to receive a personalized CRISPR gene...

New research provides hope that prion disease — a handful of rare, invariably fatal disorders caused by misfolded proteins in the brain — may, in the not-too-distant future, have a treatment if not a cure. The work, published early this year in the...

Gene editing pioneer David Liu, the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences and a core member at the Broad Institute where he is the Richard Merkin Professor and director of the Merkin Institute for Transformative Technologies in Healthcare...

David R. Liu, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University and Vice-Chair of the Faculty for the Broad Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, recieved the 2024 A.I. Scott Medal for Excellence in...