Section Head: Bai Lu, Ph.D.

Dr. Lu received his B.Sc. degree from East China Normal University and his Ph.D. from Cornell University Medical College, where he studied regulation of neurotrophin gene expression in the brain with Ira Black. He did his postdoctoral work at Rockefeller University with Paul Greengard and Mu-ming Poo on molecular mechanism of synaptic transmission and development, using the Xenopus neuromuscular synapses as a model system. In 1993, he became a faculty member at Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, where he began studying the role of neurotrophins in synapse development and plasticity. He joined NICHD as an Investigator in 1996. His laboratory investigates the mechanisms underlying neurotrophic regulation of synapses, and their functional significance.

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