Fu-Tong Liu

Fu-Tong Liu (Chinese :劉扶東; pinyin :Liú Fúdōng) is a Taiwanese photochemist, dermatologist, and physician. He served as the vice-president of Academia Sinica from 2016 to 2022. He is a professor of dermatology at the University of Southern California School of Medicine.

Liu graduated from Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School in 1966.^[1] After high school, he graduated from National Taiwan University with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in chemistry in 1970, then completed a dual doctoral MD–PhD program in the United States. He earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1976 under Professor Nien-chu Yang. His doctoral dissertation at Chicago was titled, "Photochemistry of nucleic acid derivatives".^[2]

After receiving his doctorate from the University of Chicago, Liu became a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and eventually completed his postdoctoral work at Scripps Research. In 1987, he earned a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from the University of Miami School of Medicine while at Scripps.^{[3] [4]} He completed his medical residency at the University of California, San Diego.^{[5] [6]}

Liu left Scripps to become a professor at the University of California, Davis, in 2001.^[3] At UCD, Liu was chair professor and later appointed distinguished professor in 2012.^[7] He returned to Taiwan in 2011, for a full professorship at National Taiwan University and a concurrent adjunct professorship at National Yang-Ming University.^[3] He has been a professor at the University of Southern California School of Medicine since 2023.

Liu has also served as chair professor at China Medical University and Tzu Chi University.^[3] In 2012, Liu was elected a member of Academia Sinica. The next year, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.^[3]