Georgia Tech Scientist Honored for Her Work in Biomedical Research

Hang Lu, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, was awarded the CSB2 Prize in Systems Biology presented by Merrimack Pharmaceuticals and the Council for Systems Biology. The award is presented annually to a young scientist for exceptional contributions to the development and implementation of new methods in biomedical research. Lu was honored for her work developing instruments for manipulating and studying living embryos and nematodes.

In 2003 Dr. Lu received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She then conducted postdoctoral research at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rockefeller University.