Susan Liu

Investment Team
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Susan is a member of the investment team, where she focuses on therapeutics, tools, bio-infrastructures and broader applications of biology.

Prior to 8VC, Susan was a part of the Biotech investing team at Insight Partners. Before that, she was a Venture Investing Fellow at 5AM Ventures, focusing on therapeutics investing and venture creation. She did research at the Broad Institute in the Lander Lab, where she worked on stem cell reprogramming and differentiation.

Susan graduated from Wellesley College and completed her PhD at Duke University in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. She was a member of the Gersbach Lab at Duke, developing software and statistical modeling for scCRISPR screens. She grew up in China and Australia.

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Oct 20, 2026

Orchestra Bio is Joining OpenAI

Today, Orchestra announced they will join OpenAI to build their life sciences applications.

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Oct 20, 2026

Orchestra Bio is Joining OpenAI

Today, Orchestra announced they will join OpenAI to build their life sciences applications.

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Jan 26, 2026

The Crisis and Opportunity in Rare Diseases

8VC stepped into life sciences to bridge the gap between groundbreaking biomedical innovation and real-world patient care. Our collaborations with visionary scientists have already begun transforming deadly diseases into manageable conditions, and in some cases, outright cures. Despite the immense potential of advanced diagnostics and therapies, however, rare disease medicine remains starkly underdeveloped. At their core, the unmet needs in rare diseases are not only scientific or medical challenges, but fundamental misalignments of commercial and societal incentives.

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Jan 26, 2026

The Crisis and Opportunity in Rare Diseases

8VC stepped into life sciences to bridge the gap between groundbreaking biomedical innovation and real-world patient care. Our collaborations with visionary scientists have already begun transforming deadly diseases into manageable conditions, and in some cases, outright cures. Despite the immense potential of advanced diagnostics and therapies, however, rare disease medicine remains starkly underdeveloped. At their core, the unmet needs in rare diseases are not only scientific or medical challenges, but fundamental misalignments of commercial and societal incentives.

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