Jake Liang
Board Member
Washington D.C., USA
Dr. Liang is an NIH Distinguished Investigator and the Chief of Liver Diseases Branch and Deputy Director of Translational Research, NIDDK, NIH. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. He completed his postgraduate training at Harvard Medical School, where he was an Assistant Professor of Medicine before moving to NIH. Dr. Liang is an internationally renowned thought leader and investigator in the field of viral hepatitis and liver diseases. His research program focuses on the virology, pathogenesis, vaccine and therapeutic development. He has published over 350 papers and has an h-index of >115. Dr. Liang has been an Associate Editor for top medical journals such as Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Gut. He has been in various leadership roles at NIH. He served on the Governing Board of the AASLD and was its President in 2011. His outstanding contributions have been recognized with numerous prestigious national awards including the AASLD Distinguished Mentor/Clinician Educator Award, the AGA Distinguished Achievement Award in Basic Science, the HHS Howard K. Koh Award, and the Baruch S. Blumberg Prize. He was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the AAAS Fellow, the American Academy of Microbiology, and the National Academy of Medicine.