# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-r-liu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:54:23.979Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-r-liu"
name: "David R. Liu"
slug: "david-r-liu"
description: "David Ruchien Liu is an American molecular biologist, biochemist, and organic chemist who is the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University and the Richard Merkin Professor at the Broad Institute. He is known as the pioneer of multiple genetic engineering techniques, including base editing, prime editing, and DNA-templated organic synthesis."
tagline: "American chemist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DavidRLiu2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1973-06-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.7
  momentum:             15.11642156862745
  historical:           8.385538666666665
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "刘如谦"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديفيد ر. ليو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_R._Liu"
    title: "David R. Liu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ruchien_Liu"
    title: "David Ruchien Liu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_R._Liu"
    title: "David R. Liu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Liu"
    title: "David Liu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Liu"
    title: "David Liu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_R._Liu"
    title: "David R. Liu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8E%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4"
    title: "Лю, Дэвид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump