Background
Dr. Jun Liu is a professor of pharmacology and molecular sciences and oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research focuses on the interaction between chemistry, biology and medicine. Dr. Liu serves as the co-leader for the Cancer Chemical and Structural Biology Program for the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.
Dr. Liu is the director of the Johns Hopkins Drug Library, where he and his collaborators aim to find new uses for often-forgotten drugs. Among the drug library's notable discoveries is that itraconazole, a widely used antifungal antibiotic, is a potent inhibitor of new blood vessel formation. To date, itraconazole has shown efficacy in treating non-small cell lung cancer in combination with pemetrexed, metastatic and castration-resistant prostate cancer and basal cell carcinoma.
Dr. Liu received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Nanjing University in Nanjing, China. He earned his M.S. in organic chemistry from The Ohio State University and his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry at Harvard University and a research associate at the National Institutes of Health.
Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Liu was an associate professor in the Center for Cancer Research and the departments of biology and chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Liu's work was recognized with a Director's Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health in 2010.
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