George Lu obtained his undergraduate degree at
the University of Alberta in Canada, before moving to the UC San Diego for his
Ph.D. study on protein structural biology. He then became a postdoctoral fellow
in the lab of Mikhail Shapiro at Caltech, where he focused on the engineering
of gas-filled protein nanostructures for biological imaging and cellular
control. Dr. Lu was previously awarded the Young Investigator of the Year from
the World Molecular Imaging Society for his work on the development of acoustically
erasable MRI reporter genes. The independent lab was newly established in the
Bioengineering Department at Rice University in 2020 with the support of the
NIH Pathway-to-independence (K99/R00) and the Cancer Prevention and Research
Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Scholar awards.
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