Liqun Luo (Chinese: 骆利群; born January 1966) is a neuroscientist in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, where he is the Ann and Bill Swindells Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences,[1] and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
[2] His laboratory studies the development and organization of neural circuits,[1] and he is the author of the textbook Principles of Neurobiology.
[4][5] Luo earned his bachelor's degree in molecular biology from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1986.
[1] He completed his PhD at Brandeis University in 1992, studying the Drosophila melanogaster homolog of the Amyloid precursor protein.
[6] His lab has invented tools to facilitate mosaic analysis in flies (MARCM) and mice (MADM).