Lu joins physiology faculty

Dr. Yan Lu, a postdoctoral research fellow in physiology and biophysics at UMMC since 2009, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an instructor in physiology.

Lu received the M.D. from Tianjin Medical University, China, in 2008. He completed a medical residency there from 2007-08 at the Central Hospital of Tianjin Medical University. Lu served as a diagnostic radiologist at the Oral Hospital of Nankai University, Tianjin, China, from 2008-09 before coming to the Medical Center as a postdoctoral research fellow.

An active member of the American Society of Nephrology and the American Heart Association, Lu has coauthored nine professional publications and abstracts.