Lei Liu

Tsinghua University, China

Dr. Lei Liu received BS from University of Science and Technology of China in 1999. He obtained PhD from the Chemistry Department of Columbia University in 2004 (mentor: Prof. Ronald Breslow). He went to Scripps Research to carry out postdoc studies in the laboratory of Prof. Chi-Huey Wong from 2004 to 2007. Since 2007 he has been working in the Chemistry Department of Tsinghua University. He is now professor of chemistry and the chairman of the department. His group studies chemical protein synthesis, with the aim to develop a comprehensive method algorithm that enables chemical reconstitution of increasingly complex protein systems carrying diverse post-translational modifications especially ubiquitination for their biochemical, structural, and medical studies.