Fu-Tong Liu
{{Short description|Taiwanese dermatologist}}
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Fu-Tong Liu ({{zh|first=t|t=劉扶東 |s=刘扶东 |p=Liú Fúdōng}}) is a Taiwanese chemist, physician, and dermatologist. He served as the vice-president of Academia Sinica from 2016 to 2022.
Early life and education
Liu studied chemistry at National Taiwan University and completed a doctorate in the same field at the University of Chicago in 1976. He started postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and ended postdoctoral work at Scripps Research.
Liu remained at Scripps while earning a M.D. at the University of Miami School of Medicine.{{cite news |title=Vice President Fu-Tong Liu |url=https://www.sinica.edu.tw/en/articles/17 |accessdate=7 January 2019 |publisher=Academia Sinica}}{{cite news |title=Dr. Liu, Fu-Tong |url=http://www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/fu-tong-liu/ |accessdate=7 January 2019 |publisher=Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica}} He pursued his medical residency at the University of California, San Diego.{{cite news |title=Fu-Tong Liu |url=http://www.rheumatology.org.tw/old/apply/ON_Files/N2013819154138_2600_002.pdf |accessdate=7 January 2019 |publisher=American College of Rheumatology |date=2013}}{{cite news |title=Fu-Tong Liu, MD, PhD |url=http://www.mmaapf.org/en/member/fu-tong-liu-md-phd/ |accessdate=7 January 2019 |publisher=Milstein Medical Asian American Partnership Foundation}}
Career
Liu left Scripps for the University of California, Davis, faculty in 2001. At UCD, Liu was chair professor and later appointed distinguished professor in 2012.{{cite news |title=Fu-Tong Liu, M.D., Ph.D. |url=https://health.ucdavis.edu/dermatology/faculty/liu.html |accessdate=7 January 2019 |publisher=University of California, Davis}} He returned to Taiwan in 2011, for a full professorship at National Taiwan University and a concurrent adjunct professorship at National Yang-Ming University.
Liu has also served as chair professor at China Medical University and Tzu Chi University. 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.
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