Dr. Shan Lu
Member
Advisory Board
GenScript
Switzerland
Biography
Dr. Shan Lu is a tenured professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) and the director of Laboratory of Nucleic Acid Vaccines. He served as Chair for three US NIH panels to select candidate vaccines for national stockpiling against key biodefense targets. He is a recipient of numerous awards including the Howard Hughes Research Award for Physician Scientists and the Worcester Foundation Research Award. Dr. Lu is a world expert on novel vaccine development against a wide range of human pathogens, and a pioneer in DNA vaccines. He has over 120 publications in international scientific journals. He is a member of the Executive Board of the International Society for Vaccines (ISV) and one of its three executive officers. He was the co-chair for the 2nd - 4th Annual Global Vaccine and ISV Congress, and the chairman for 2010 International Conference on Gene-Based Vaccines. He serves either as associated editors or members of the editorial board for several international research journals including Vaccine, and PLoS One. He also holds adjunct professorship at multiple Chinese higher education and research institutions, and serves as adjunct director for the China-US Vaccine Center in Nanjing, China. He is an Executive Board member of China AIDS Vaccine Initiative (CAVI). Dr. Lu received his MD from Nanjing Medical University, China, PhD from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Master of Health Administration (MHA) from Clark University. Dr. Lu is and associate director of Medicine Residency Program at UMMS.
Research Interest
Biochemistry , Pharmacology and Chemotherapy, business management
