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David R. Liu
David Ruchien Liu (; born 1973) is an American molecular biologist and organic chemist who is the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University and the Richard Merkin Professor at the Broad Institute, where he is the director of the Merkin Institute for Transformative Technologies. As an undergraduate at Harvard, Liu worked with Nobel Prize laureate Elias James Corey and graduated first in his class. After earning his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Liu was made an assistant professor at Harvard at age 26. In 2025 he was awarded a Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for developing two fundamental gene-editing techniques: base editing and prime editing. Provided by Wikipedia
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