The Lu-Ng Lab seeks intellectually curious and motivated postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, visiting scholars/students and undergraduate interns to join our group. Our research interests lie at the intersection of intersection of micro-nanotechnologies, multiomics analysis, and data driven approaches, aiming to develop effective develop effective analysis tools and therapeutic strategies for cancer, autoimmune diseases, and infectious diseases. Feel free to email us at luyuelab@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

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Multiple postdoctoral fellow positions are available immediately. Applicants are expected to have an excellent track record with expertise in at least one and preferably multiple areas including bioengineering, immunology, micro/nano fabrication, and bioinformatics. Qualified candidates must have a Ph.D. degree in Biological Science, Biochemistry, Engineering, Medicine, Chemistry, Immunology or a closely related discipline. We seek applicants who are highly motivated, open-minded, creative, intellectually curious, and share our passion for translational medicine.

Successful candidates will lead highly innovative projects under our recent NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (DP2), where we seek to monitor the influence of environmental exposures on human health through EV analysis. Postdoctoral scholars in our lab will also have opportunities to participate in our ongoing efforts in Type 1 Diabetes, lung cancer, long COVID, multiple sclerosis, and Alzheimer's disease.

Competitive salaries and benefit plans will be offered.

Those interested should contact us (luyuelab@gmail.com, please reference “postdoc application" in the subject line) with a single PDF file containing a cover letter briefly describing research interests and accomplishments, a CV with a complete list of publications and copies of up to three relevant papers, and names of at least three references.

Graduate Students

Two Ph.D. graduate student positions are available. Applicants are expected to conduct research projects in the areas of micro-nanotechnologies and multiomic analysis. We are looking for candidates who are highly motivated, intellectually curious and have excellent academic achievements in a major field of Chemistry, Bioengineering, Pharmaceutical Science, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Biochemistry, Biology, Medicine or a closely related discipline. Please check the admission websites of Molecular Pharmaceutics or Biomedical Engineering for details.
Interested students should contact us ( luyuelab@gmail.com, please reference “PhD application" in the subject line).

Research Technicians

We are hiring one research technician. Apply here.

Visiting Scholars/Students

We always welcome international visiting scholars/students with aligned research interests. We can be reached at luyuelab@gmail.com ( please reference “Visiting scholars/students application” in the subject line).

Undergraduate Students

Please contact us directly (luyuelab@gmail.com) to see if space is available.

Address
University of Utah
30 South 2000 East
Room 2912, Skaggs Research Institute
Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA

Contact Information
Email: luyuelab@gmail.com