Dr. Liwei LU (Hong Kong)

After graduating in Medicine at Jiangsu University, Dr. Lu worked as a lecturer in anatomy and histology at the same medical school and then went to McGill University for his PhD studies in 1993. After receiving his PhD in 1997, he continued his postdoctoral research at University of Toronto. He joined the University of Hong Kong in 2000 and has been a tenured Associated Professor since 2007.

Dr. Lu’s research has been focusing on lymphocyte development and its dysregulation in autoimmune diseases. Using an animal model for human rheumatoid arthritis, his laboratory is developing novel strategies for targeting TNF family cytokines in treating autoimmune arthritis. He received the David Rae Memorial Award from Leukemia Research Fund of Canada in 2000 and Young Investigator Award from Hong Kong Society for Immunology in 2003. He was awarded the Faculty Teaching Award at University of Hong Kong in 2008. Since 2007, he has been serving as the Chairman of Hong Kong Society for Immunology. Dr. Lu has published more than 50 research papers in leading immunology and rheumatology journals including Nature immunology, PNAS, Blood, Journal of Immunology and Arthritis & Rheumatism.