Fu-Tong Liu
Liu Fu-tong 劉扶東 | |
|---|---|
| Education | |
| Occupation | Dermatologist |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Photochemistry Dermatology |
| Institutions | University of California, Davis National Taiwan University University of Southern California |
| Thesis | Photochemistry of nucleic acid derivatives (1976) |
| Doctoral advisor | Nien-chu Yang |
Fu-Tong Liu (Chinese: 劉扶東; pinyin: Liú Fúdōng) is a Taiwanese photochemist, dermatologist, and physician. He served as the vice-president of Academia Sinica from 2016 to 2022. He is a professor of dermatology at the University of Southern California School of Medicine.
Early life and education
Liu graduated from Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School in 1966.[1] After high school, he graduated from National Taiwan University with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in chemistry in 1970, then completed a dual doctoral MD–PhD program in the United States. He earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1976 under Professor Nien-chu Yang. His doctoral dissertation at Chicago was titled, "Photochemistry of nucleic acid derivatives".[2]
After receiving his doctorate from the University of Chicago, Liu became a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and eventually completed his postdoctoral work at Scripps Research. In 1987, he earned a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from the University of Miami School of Medicine while at Scripps.[3][4] He completed his medical residency at the University of California, San Diego.[5][6]
Career
Liu left Scripps to become a professor at the University of California, Davis, in 2001.[3] At UCD, Liu was chair professor and later appointed distinguished professor in 2012.[7] He returned to Taiwan in 2011, for a full professorship at National Taiwan University and a concurrent adjunct professorship at National Yang-Ming University.[3] He has been a professor at the University of Southern California School of Medicine since 2023.
Liu has also served as chair professor at China Medical University and Tzu Chi University.[3] In 2012, Liu was elected a member of Academia Sinica. The next year, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[3]
References
- ^ "傑出校友劉扶東學長 9 月 1 日起升任中央研究院副院長 | 成功中學校友會". www.cksh.org.tw. Retrieved 2026-03-04.
- ^ "Photochemistry of nucleic acid derivatives" (PhD Thesis). Proquest. 1976.
- ^ a b c d e "Vice President Fu-Tong Liu". Academia Sinica. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ^ "Dr. Liu, Fu-Tong". Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica. Archived from the original on 8 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ^ "Fu-Tong Liu" (PDF). American College of Rheumatology. 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ^ "Fu-Tong Liu, MD, PhD". Milstein Medical Asian American Partnership Foundation. Archived from the original on 7 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ^ "Fu-Tong Liu, M.D., Ph.D." University of California, Davis. Retrieved 7 January 2019.