Zhenyu Liu

🧬Professional Experience

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

🎓Education

• Ph.D. of Biology, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, 2021-2025
  • Enrolled in Center for High-Level Talent Cultivation in Biology (生物学国家高层次人才培养中心)
  • Research interests: single-cell omics, tumor heterogeneity, epigenetics, gastrointestinal cancer
  • Advisor: Prof. Fuchou Tang
• B.Sc. of Biology, Yuanpei College, Peking University, 2017-2021
  • Research interests: pancreas development, cell fate regulation
  • Academic advisor: Prof. Chengran Xu

📚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 优秀毕业⽣张景钺奖 2025
• Excellent Graduate 优秀毕业生 2025
• Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST (Doctoral Student) 中国科协青年人才托举工程博士生专项计划 2025
• National Scholarship 国家奖学金 2024
• Academic Innovation Award 学术创新奖 2024
• Merit Student Pacesetter 三好学生标兵 2024
• Merit Student 三好学生 2023, 2022
• Peking University President Scholarship 北京大学校长奖学金 2023
• Awards for Academic Excellents 学习优秀奖 2018
• Freshman Scholarship 新生奖学金 2017

🏓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 on Publication Page or Google Scholar.