Margaret A. Liu, MD

Dr. Margaret Liu is a world-renowned expert in the fields of gene therapy, vaccines and immunotherapy, Margaret currently serves as Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) of PAX Therapeutics, as an Adjunct Full Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and as Hedersdoktor with scientific affiliation in the Department of Medicine at the Karolinska Institutet. Dr. Liu pioneered DNA vaccines and bispecific antibodies and has received a number of international awards. Dr. Liu widely consults for companies and scientific governmental and non-governmental organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) through her activities as Principal of ProTherImmune and previously held positions of increasing responsibility at Merck & Co. and Chiron Corporation. She is currently a board member of Ipsen, where she chairs the Ethics and Governance Committee and is a member of the Innovation and Development Committee, and as a member of the board, and President Emerita, of the International Society for Vaccines. She also serves on the board of MacroGenics as well as the Science and Technology Committee. Previously she served on the boards of Transgene, Sangamo Biosciences, Adjuvance Technologies and the United Nations Development Programme-established International Vaccine Institute and was Senior Advisor in Vaccinology at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Liu earned an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine followed by an Endocrinology Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. She also served on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and was a Visiting Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She obtained a B.A. in Chemistry summa cum laude from Colorado College.