Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Scripps Research
Dr. Yuzhong Liu is a recipient of the 2024 Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants for her proposal, “Improved Saponin-based Adjuvants for Cancer Vaccines.”
Dr. Liu is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Scripps Research. She leads a lab that combines natural product chemistry and synthetic biology to advance novel drug discovery. Her research seeks to use synthetic biology to elucidate the structure-immunoactivity relationship of natural and new-to-nature glycosides to guide the design of more potent and safer vaccine adjuvant candidates for cancer vaccines.