Yansheng Liu PhD

Dr. Yansheng Liu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Yale University School of Medicine and a secondary faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science (BIDS). He leads a group specializing in quantitative proteomics at the Yale Cancer Biology Institute and the Yale Cancer Center.

Dr. Liu earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011 and completed postdoctoral training at ETH Zurich under the mentorship of Ruedi Aebersold. Since joining Yale's faculty in December 2017, his research has centered on analyzing protein turnover and post-translational modifications to unravel the complexities of cancer aneuploidy, cellular signaling pathways, and biodiversity. His lab is also dedicated to advancing multiplexed data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry (DIA-MS) and exploring MALDI imaging mass spectrometry for clinical applications.

Dr. Liu's contributions have been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the ASMS Research Award, the HUPO Early Career Researcher Award, and the US HUPO Robert J. Cotter Award.