Brian B. Liau, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Brian grew up in Belmont, MA and graduated from Harvard College in 2007, conducting undergraduate research with EJ Corey. He later received his Ph.D. in Chemistry with Matthew Shair at Harvard Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB), where he worked on the total synthesis of complex natural products and later studied their mechanisms of action. Brian was then a postdoctoral fellow with Bradley Bernstein at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he investigated epigenetic mechanisms of adaptation and drug resistance in brain cancer. Brian started his independent lab at Harvard CCB in 2016.

liau (at) chemistry (dot) harvard (dot) edu