Lu Tao
Indiana University, USA
Biography
Tao Lu is a tenure-track Assistant Professor and Principle Investigator at Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, as well as a member of Experimental and Developmental Therapeutics Research Program at Simon Cancer Center at Indiana University School of Medicine. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from University of Toledo, School of Medicine. She then did her postdoctoral training with the world renowned scientist Dr. George R. Stark at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio. She has been working on discovery of novel regulators of NFκB, and is particular interested in epigenetic regulation of transcription factors and their role in cancer. She has won several international awards, including the First Place Prize of Young Investigator Award at Tri-Society [Society of Leukocyte Biology (SLB) & International Cytokine Society (ICS) & International Society of Interferon and Cytokine Research (ISICR)] conference and Seymour and Vivian Milstein Young Investigator Award at ISICR & ICS International conference.
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