Steven H. Liang

Steven H. Liang began his professional career as a NSERC fellow under the mentorship of Professor EJ Corey at Harvard University in 2010. He started his junior faculty position (Assistant Professor 2013) at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, then promoted to the Director of Radiochemistry (2017) and Associate Professor of Radiology (2019). In early 2022, Dr. Liang assumed the role of the inaugural head at the newly established Translational PET Center at Emory University and Endowed Directorship of Radiochemistry Program. He joined the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology in 2024 as a PhD Program Faculty. As PI on numerous foundation- and federal-funded research projects, Dr. Liang has created an efficient research team to lead the projects and collaborated with stellar scientists in the world. This effort has resulted in >280 publications and more than 20 national and international awards and recognitions. Dr. Liang’s research interests encompass the discovery and translation of molecular imaging probes and radioactive drug discovery, including novel radiochemistry, PET imaging diagnostics and radioligand therapy, as well as the translation of these technologies into clinical settings (Phase I first-in-human studies; Phase II efficacy/target engagement validation, and PET imaging based observational human trials).