{"66421":{"#nid":"66421","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Professor Lu Receives Prize in Systems Biology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHang Lu, associate professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s\nSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been selected to receive\nthe\u0026nbsp;CSB2 Prize in Systems Biology, which is sponsored by Merrimack\nPharmaceuticals and by the Council for Systems Biology in Boston.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe CSB2 Prize in Systems Biology is awarded\nannually to a young scientist for exceptional contributions to the development\nand implementation of new methods in biomedical research. Lu was selected for\ndevelopment of microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip instruments for manipulating and\nstudying living embryos and nematodes.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ELu, who is part of Georgia Tech\u2019s Parker H. Petit\nInstitute of Bioengineering and Bioscience, received her Ph.D. from the\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003 and served as a postdoc at\nthe\u0026nbsp;Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California and\nthe Rockefeller University before coming to Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe has received other awards including the\u0026nbsp;DARPA Young Faculty Award,\nthe\u0026nbsp;DuPont Young Professor Award and the\u0026nbsp;National Institutes of\nHealth Mentored Quantitative Research CAREER Development Award. Her research\nlies at the interface of engineering and biology. Lu\u0027s lab engineers\nmicrofluidic devices and BioMEMS (Bio Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) to\nstudy neuroscience, genetics, cancer biology, systems biology, and\nbiotechnology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Council for Systems Biology in Boston\nbuilds local, regional, and national links between academic and industrial\nlaboratories active in the areas of systems and computational biology. CSB2 is\ndedicated to promoting quantitative, systems and synthetic biology in the\nBoston area and beyond by promoting interactions among academic and\npharmaceutical laboratories, organizing international symposia and recognizing\nthe achievements of promising young scientists and engineers.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHang Lu, associate professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been selected to receive the\u0026nbsp;CSB2 Prize in Systems Biology, which is sponsored by Merrimack Pharmaceuticals and by the Council for Systems Biology in Boston\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Hang Lu, associate professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been selected to receive the CSB2 Prize in Systems Biology."}],"uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2011-06-08 10:56:33","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:49","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-06-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-06-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"56261":{"id":"56261","type":"image","title":"Dr. Hang Lu","body":null,"created":"1449175629","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:47:09","changed":"1475894499","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:39","alt":"Dr. Hang Lu","file":{"fid":"190426","name":"tsb11903.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tsb11903_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tsb11903_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1388514,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tsb11903_0.jpg?itok=18sWpMAf"}}},"media_ids":["56261"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/faculty\/lu.php","title":"Hang Lu"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"13349","name":"College of Engineering; School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; IBB; Hang Lu"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["klipp@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}