Zhenyu Liu

🔬Professional Experience

• Research Scientist, National Cancer Center / Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2025-present
  • Department: State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology
  • Advisor: Prof. Zhihua Liu & Prof. Yun Zhang
  • Research interests: tumor heterogeneity, spatial omics, tumor microenvironment, immunotherapy

🎓Education

• Ph.D. of Biology, School of Life Sciences / BIOPIC, Peking University, 2021-2025
  • Enrolled in Center for High-Level Talent Cultivation in Biology
  • Research interests: single-cell omics, tumor heterogeneity, epigenetics, gastrointestinal cancer
  • Advisor: Prof. Fuchou Tang
• B.Sc. of Biology, Yuanpei College, Peking University, 2017-2021
  • Enrolled in Undergraduate Research Training Program
  • Research interests: pancreas development, cell fate regulation
  • Academic advisor: Prof. Chengran Xu

💡Funding

• Young Scientists Fund of BNSF, Beijing Natural Science Foundation. 2025-2027

📚Teaching

• Freshman Seminar on General, Peking University. Teaching Assistant. 2018 Fall.
• Current Topics on Genetics, Peking University. Teaching Assistant. 2022 Fall.

🏆Awards & Honors

• Zhang Jingyue Outstanding Graduate Award, Peking University, 2025
• Excellent Graduate, Peking University, 2025
• Doctoral Student Program of the Young S&T Talents Cultivation Project, China Association for Science and Technology, 2025
• National Scholarship, Ministry of Edication, 2024
• Academic Innovation Award, Peking University, 2024
• Merit Student Pacesetter, Peking University, 2024
• Merit Student, Peking University, 2023, 2022
• President Scholarship, Peking University, 2023
• Awards for Academic Excellents, Peking University, 2018

🏓Tournaments

• 🥉 Bronze Medal. “PKU Cup” Table Tennis Championships. Team AAIS-SLS, 2024.
• 🥇 Gold Medal. “PKU Cup” Table Tennis Championships. Team AAIS-SLS, 2022.
• 🥈 Silver Medal. “PKU Cup” Table Tennis Championships. Team YPC-GSE, 2021.
• 🥉 Third Prize. Chinese University Table Tennis Championships, non-profesional group. Team PKU, 2019.

📝Selected Publications

1. Liu, Z.†, Hu, Y.†, Xie, H.†, Chen, K.†, Wen, L., Fu, W., Zhou, X.*, Tang, F.*, 2024. Single-Cell Chromatin Accessibility Analysis Reveals the Epigenetic Basis and Signature Transcription Factors for the Molecular Subtypes of Colorectal Cancers. Cancer Discovery 14, 1082–1105.
2. Liao, Y.†, Liu, Z.†, Zhang, Y.†, Lu, P., Wen, L., Tang, F.*, 2023. High-throughput and high-sensitivity full-length single-cell RNA-seq analysis on third-generation sequencing platform. Cell Discovery 9, 5.
3. Gao, Y.†, Zhang, J.†, Liu, Z.†, Qi, S.†, Guo, X., Wang, H., Cheng, Y., Tian, S., Ma, M., Peng, H., Wen, L., Tang, F.*, Yao, Y.*, 2022. Single-cell Sequencing Reveals Clearance of Blastula Chromosomal Mosaicism in In Vitro Fertilization Babies. Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics 20, 1224–1231.

Marks: co-first author†, corresponding author*. See full list of publications in Google Scholar.