Dr. Yue Lu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmaceutics at the University of Utah, and a member of the Experimental Therapeutics Program at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. She received her B.S. degree in Chemistry from Nanjing University, and Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina (NC) State University, under the guidance of Dr. Zhen Gu in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. James R. Heath at the Institute for Systems Biology and Caltech.  Dr. Lu is the recipient of the Graduate Research Advances in Delivery Science Award from the Controlled Release Society, the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, and the Distinguished Graduate Dissertation Award from NC State College of Engineering.