{{Short description|American professor of pediatrics}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Judy Lieberman | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1947}} | birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts | fields = {{hlist|Pediatrics|molecular medicine}} | workplaces = {{ubl|Tufts University|Harvard University|Boston Children's Hospital}} | alma_mater = {{Plainlist| * Harvard College * Rockefeller University * Harvard University }} | awards = {{ubl|{{Awards|Pew Scholar|1991–1995}}|{{Awards|National Academy of Sciences|2020}}}} }}
'''Judy Lieberman''' is a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and holds an endowed chair in cellular and molecular medicine at Boston Children's Hospital.
== Early life == Judy Lieberman was born in September 1947, in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in New Jersey with her parents and two sisters Phyllis and Donna.<ref name=OH/>
Lieberman received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College in physics in 1969, a PhD from The Rockefeller University in theoretical physics in 1974, and an MD from Harvard University in 1981. She then did a residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in hematology-oncology at Tufts University School of Medicine's New England Medical Center<ref name="OH" /> where she did research in Sheldon M. Wolff's lab. She then returned to Harvard to work at Harvard’s Center for Blood Research.<ref name=OH/>
== Career == In 1986, she joined the faculty at Tufts as an instructor of internal medicine. From 1987 to 1995, she was an assistant professor. In 1996, she moved to Harvard University, where she was an assistant professor of pediatrics.<ref name=OH/>
Research in the Lieberman lab focuses on immunotherapy, cellular-based therapies, and RNA interference. <ref>{{cite web |title=Judy Lieberman |url=https://www.mcb.harvard.edu/directory/judy-lieberman/ |website=Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology |access-date=26 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD - DF/HCC |url=https://www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/judy-lieberman-md-phd/ |website=www.dfhcc.harvard.edu |access-date=26 May 2020}}</ref> This research has aided in the creation of 5 FDA approved drugs that attempt to alter gene expression in immune and cancer cells.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Judy Lieberman {{!}} HMS Office for Graduate Education PhD Programs|url=https://ogephd.hms.harvard.edu/people/judy-lieberman|website=ogephd.hms.harvard.edu|access-date=2026-02-01|language=en}}</ref>
From 1991 to 1995, she was a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.<ref name=OH/><ref>{{cite web |title=Judy Lieberman, M.D., Ph.D. |url=https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/pew-biomedical-scholars/directory-of-pew-scholars/1991/judy-lieberman |publisher=The Pew Charitable Trusts |access-date=26 May 2020}}</ref> She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=2020 NAS Election |url=http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2020-nas-election.html |website=www.nasonline.org |access-date=26 May 2020}}</ref> In 2025, Lieberman was made a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.<ref>{{Cite web |title=65 Fellows Elected Into the American Academy of Microbiology |url=https://asm.org/Press-Releases/2025/February/65-Fellows-Elected-Into-the-American-Academy-of-Mi |access-date=2025-03-06 |website=ASM.org |language=en}}</ref>
== Personal life == Lieberman married Edward Greer while in graduate school.<ref name="OH">{{cite web |title=Judy Lieberman {{!}} Science History Institute {{!}} Center for Oral History |url=https://oh.sciencehistory.org/oral-histories/lieberman-judy |website=oh.sciencehistory.org |access-date=26 May 2020}}</ref> She had her first child while in medical school and her second during her residency.
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