Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei,
Taiwan.
Biography
Jean Lu was a PostDoc at Yale University and start to lunch functional screen in human embryonic stem cells. After she established her laboratory in 2007 at Academia Sinica, she set up and performed the first high throughput shRNA in mouse embryonic stem cells and an unbiased cDNA library screen in mesenchymal stem cells. The finding can help to enhance embryonic stem cell expansion and develop new treatment for bone diseases. Dr. Lu is also the co-PI of the National RNA core which joined the TRC consortium founded by nine institute including Broad Institute, Harvard University, MIT, Sigma, etc.
