Iris Liu attended Dartmouth College, where she majored in Biology and minored in Applied Ethics. At Dartmouth, she worked as an HHMI scholar to study cancer signaling pathways, and she continued to work in cancer research prior to starting medical school at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). At UCSF, she has further developed her interests in translational oncology and thoracic surgery and is an intern at UCSF this summer under the mentorship of Drs. Johannes Kratz and David Jablons.