Hung-wen Liu 劉鴻文 Election Year 2008 College of Pharmacy, PHR 3.206B
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712, U.S.A. Tel: (512) 232-7811 / Fax: (512) 471-2746
Current Positions
George, H. Hitchings Regents Chair in Drug Design, and Professor of Pharmacy and Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin
Education
B.S., Tunghai University (1974)
M.Phil., Columbia University (1981)
Ph.D., Columbia University (1981)
Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT (1981-84)
Professional Experience
University of Minnesota, Assistant Professor to Full Professor of Chemistry (1984-2000); Distinguished McKnight University Professor (1999-2000)
University of Texas at Austin, George, H. Hitchings Regents Chair in Drug Design, and Professor of Pharmacy and Chemistry (2000-present)
Specialties
Chemical Biology and Bioorganic Chemistry: Mechanistic Enzymology, Metabolic Pathway Engineering, Carbohydrate Chemistry
Awards and Honors
Award:
American Chemical Society Horace S. Isbell Award (1993)
National Institute of General Medical Sciences MERIT Award
(1999)
American Chemical Society, Nakanishi Prize (2007)
American Chemical Society, Repligen Award (2008)
A. I. Scott Medal (2011); American Chemical Society Arthur C.
Cope Late Career Scholars Award (2014)
American Chemical Society, Claude S. Hudson Award (2019)
American Society of Pharmacognosy, Norman R. Farnsworth Research Achievement Award (2022)
American Chemical Society, Gordon Hammes Lectureship Award
(2023)
Honor:
Honorary Professor: University of Hong Kong (2001-2006), Tunghai University (2010), National Tsing Hua University (2011).
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2005); American Academy of Microbiology (2006); American Chemical Society Fellow (2014); American Society of Pharmacognosy (2022).
Advisory Board/Review Panel:
US: NIH Bioorganic & Natural Product Chemistry Study Section (1991-1995), Biochemistry Study Section (1999-2003)
Taiwan: Academia Sinica, Institute of Chemistry (1997-present), Institute of Biological Chemistry (2001-present), and Genomic Research Center (2002-present), NHRI, Institute of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Research (2002-present)
Singapore: Academic Research Fund Expert Panel for Engineering & Physical Sciences Cluster (2006-2014).
Editorial Board:
Chem. Record (2000-present), Biochemistry (2012-present); Associate Editor, Org. Lett. (2004-2019), Editor-in-Chief, Comprehensive Natural Products Chemistry, 2nd and 3rd Edition (2005-2010, 2017-2020).