Jia Niu is an assistant professor of chemistry in Boston College. Jia obtained a B.S. degree (2005) and a M.S. degree (2008) fromTsinghua University in China. He then moved to the United States to pursue a PhD degree at Harvard University, working with Professor David R. Liu on the enzyme-free translation and directed evolution of synthetic polymers. Jia joined the faculty of Boston College in 2017 after working as a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratories of Professor Craig Hawker and Professor Tom Soh at University of California, Santa Barbara. Currently, Jia and his research group are focused on understanding functional roles of sulfation patterns in bioactive macromolecules, developing sustainable plastics using biobased building blocks,
and the directed evolution of genome editors. Jia is a recipient of NSF CAREER
Award (2020), NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (2019), and the Beckman Young
Investigator Award (2019).
Sessions
Developing a Robust Partnership Between the PI, the Research Team, and the Sponsor Research Administration