Stephen Liberles, Ph.D.

Liberles is a professor and HHMI Investigator in the Cell Biology Department at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on the molecular neuroscience of sensory systems, including mechanisms of body-brain communication and olfaction. Liberles received an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Harvard in 1994 and a Ph.D. in chemistry and chemical biology from Harvard in 1999, working in the lab of Stuart Schreiber. He then performed post-doctoral work in the lab of Linda Buck, first at Harvard Medical School and then at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.