Qing Lu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Endowed Title: Southwestern Medical Foundation Scholar in Medical Research

Department: Developmental Biology, Molecular Biology

Graduate Programs: Cancer Biology, Neuroscience

Biography

Graduate School Rutgers University-UMDNJ, Ph.D.  Biochemistry (1997)
Graduate School

USTC/Chinese Academic Sinica, Institute of Chemistry (1991)

Undergraduate Beijing Normal University,  Biochemistry (1988)

Education

Graduate School Rutgers University (), Biophysics
Graduate School Rutgers University New Brunswick (1997)

Research Interests

  • Epigenetic and chromatin remodeling control of myelinating cell (oligodendrocyte and Schwann cell) differentiation and disease
  • Formation of brain cancers and tumor initiating cells
  • Molecular control of peripheral myelination and nerve regeneration
  • Non-coding RNA (e.g. miRNAs and lncRNAs) in myelination in the CNS
  • Signaling mechanisms including GPCR signaling in glial differentiation and regeneration
  • Transcriptional regulation of neural stem cell differentiation and gliogenesis

Publications

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Sonic Hedgehog-Regulated Oligodendrocyte Lineage Genes Encoding bHLH Proteins in the Mammalian Central Nervous System.

Lu, Q.R., Yuk, D., Alberta, J.A., Zhu, Z., Pawlitzky, I., Chan, J., McMahon, A. P., Stiles, C. D. and Rowitch, D. H. NEURON 2000 25 317-329

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Honors/Awards

  • Basil O’connor scholar from March of Dimes
    (2004)
  • Harry Weaver Neuroscience Scholar from NMSS
    (2003)
  • The Best 'Mature' Scientific Study Award from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    (2002)
  • Fellowship Award from the Charles A. King Trust and the Medical Foundation
    (2001)
  • National Research Service Award Fellow from NIH
    (1998)