Fa Liu, PhD

Director of Discovery Chemistry at Novo Nordisk Research Center Seattle

Speaker

Dr. Liu is the Director of Discovery Chemistry at Novo Nordisk Research Center, where he is leading the chemistry department to drive the peptide and protein therapeutics discovery targeting obesity, diabetes and other metabolic diseases. Prior to joining Novo, he was the Director of Chemistry at Calibrium Biotech where he played instrumental roles in building up the company portfolio (2014-2015). Dr. Liu started his industrial career at Eli Lilly (2009-2014) where he led the peptide lead optimization efforts across various disease areas and the establishment of novel insulin chemistries. He has advanced significant number of discovery programs including two into clinical trials and many into preclinical development. Dr. Liu has published more than 60 scientific articles and patents. Dr. Liu received his Ph.D. from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry in 2004 followed by a five year stay at the National Cancer Institute as a postdoctoral fellow (2004-2007) and a staff scientist (2007-2009).