Lu Chen (scientist)
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Lu Chen | |
|---|---|
| Chinese: 陈路 | |
| Born | 1972 (age 53–54) |
| Alma mater | University of Southern California |
| Spouse | Thomas C. Südhof |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellows Program, Beckman Young Investigators Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | neuroscientist |
| Institutions | Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard F. Thompson |
Lu Chen (Chinese: 陈路) is a Chinese-born American neuroscientist, who is a Professor of Neurosurgery, and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and is a member of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute.[1] She was previously an Associate Professor of Neurobiology and a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley.[2]
She was born and raised in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a PhD in Neurobiology in 1998. She studied with Richard F. Thompson.[3]
Her husband is Thomas C. Südhof, a Nobel laureate in physiology and medicine and a professor at Stanford University. Her former husband, Shaowen Bao, is a professor of neuroscience.[4][5]
