Xiaole Shirley Liu

Xiaole Shirley Liu
刘小乐
EducationPeking University
Smith College (BA)
Stanford University (PhD)
AwardsISCB Fellow (2019)
Breast Cancer Research Foundation Investigator
ISCB Innovator Award (2020)
Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics) (2020)
AIMBE Fellow (2022)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsDana–Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard University
GV20 Therapeutics
ThesisDiscovery of transcription factor binding sites using computational statistics (2002)
Doctoral advisorDouglas Brutlag
Jun S. Liu
Websiteliulab-dfci.github.io

Xiaole Shirley Liu (Chinese: 刘小乐) is a computational biologist, cancer researcher, and entrepreneur. She has been a Professor in the Department of Data Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She co-founded GV20 Therapeutics and, in early 2022, left DFCI to become its full-time CEO.