Baylor Research Institute (BRI), the research arm of Baylor Health Care System (BHCS), has appointed Yong-Jun Liu, M.D., Ph.D., vice president and chief scientific officer (CSO) for BRI and director of the Baylor Institute for Immunology Research (BIIR).

Liu comes to Baylor from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center where he was professor and chair of the department of immunology as well as the director of the center for cancer immunology research.  Before that, he was senior staff scientist at the biotech company DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology.