Xiuling Lu
Professor
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Xiuling Lu, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmaceutics at the University of Connecticut, Associate Director of Center for Pharmaceutical Processing Research, Past Chair of the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology & Education, received her Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. She joined the University of Kentucky as a Postdoctoral Scholar in 2006 and received a prestigious Benedict Cassen Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award from the Education and Research Foundation for the Society of Nuclear Medicine to work on dual imaging-therapeutic nanovectors in 2008. She continued this line of research as a Research Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2008 to 2011, and then joined the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy in 2011.
EDUCATION
2001 – 2005 Ph.D., Biochemical Engineering
National Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
1998 – 2001 M.S., Fermentation Engineering
Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, China
1994 – 1998 B.S., Biochemical Engineering
Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, China
RESEARCH EXPERIENCES
2022-Present Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Connecticut
2018-Present Associate Director, Kildsig Center for Pharmaceutical Processing Research (Main site of the four member universities: University of Connecticut)
2017-2022 Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Connecticut
2011–2017 Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Connecticut
2008 – 2011 Research Assistant Professor, Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
2006 – 2008 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Kentucky. Worked on a project related to the delivery of diagnostic and therapeutic agents to tumors via solid lipid nanocarriers.
2004 – 2006 Research Associate, National Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Leader of research group on purification of proteins and protein modification.
2001 – 2004 Research Assistant, National Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Team leader for R&D project sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 20136020) and Key Project of Knowledge Innovation Program by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1999 – 2001 Research Assistant, Member of group on a solid-state fermentation project supported by the Tianjin Natural Science Foundation of China.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2025 Member of Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
2024 19th Annual Women of Innovation Award in Research Innovation and Leadership, Connecticut Technology Council and Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology
2023 Fellow of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
2023 Faculty Research Advising Award, University of Connecticut
2019 Dean Robert L. McCarthy Faculty Service Award, University of Connecticut
2016 UConn-AAUP Excellence in Research and Creativity: Early Career Award
2013, 2015 Expert Panel for evaluation of a FDA GRAS application
2008 Benedict Cassen Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award from the Education and Research Foundation for the Society of Nuclear Medicine
2005 First – Grade Award of Beijing National Scientific and Technological Progress, Preparation and Application of Size Uniform and Controllable Microsphere and Vesicle
2004 Best Poster Award, Young Asian Biochemical Engineers’ Community, Japan
2004 Excellent presentation Award, 1st Chinese National Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Annual Meeting
2004 Presidential Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2002 Innovation Research Fund, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2001 6th National Outstanding Student honor & 4th Hu Chunan Excellent Student award (awarded only to the top 100 students in China each year)
2000 Prize winner at National Competition of Business Plan for Science and Technology Innovation for students
2000 Award for Excellence at Competition of Business Plan for Science and Technology Innovation in Tianjin city
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Spring 2012- PHAR 6234 Advanced Biopharmaceutics – Instructor
Spring 2012- PHAR 3012 Pharmacy Research seminar-Lecturer
Spring 2012, Fall 2013, CHEG 5395-002 Applied Nanomaterials –Guest Lecturer
Spring 2013- PHRX 3031 Foundation in Pharmaceutics I-Instructor
Fall 2013- PHRX 3030 Pharmacokinetics/Biopharmaceutics–Coordinator
2013- PHAR 5293 Pharmaceutics Seminar – Coordinator
Spring 2015, 2017 PHRX 3012 Pharmacy Research Seminar-Coordinator
Spring 2018, 2020 PHRX 5240 Drug Discovery and Development
Spring 2020 GRAD 5910 Responsible Conduct in Research
Fall 2023- PHAR 5297 Drug Development in the Real World
Service
2024 AAPS Fellows Committee
2024 AAPS Board Communities Sub-committee
2024 NCI Clinical and Translational Cancer Research Review Panel
2024 AAPS Open Associate Editor
2024 Controlled Release Society ED&I Committee
2024 Michael J. Pikal Symposium Executive Co-Chair
2024 Pharmaceuticals Editorial Board
2024 Executive Chair, National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology & Education Pathfinding Workshop on Advanced Manufacturing Technologies: Accelerating Injectable Product Development and Addressing Drug Shortages
2023 Steering Committee, National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology & Education Pathfinding Workshop: Accelerating Drug Development and Approval
2023 Vice Chair, UConn Radiation Safety Committee
2023 NIH Special Panel reviewer
2023 International Journal of Pharmaceutics Editorial Board
2023 Pharmaceuticals Special Issue: Self-Assembled Nanoparticles: An Emerging Delivery Platform for Drugs
2023 Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia grant reviewer
2023 Pharmaceutical Research Special Theme Issue Editor: NIPTE Special Theme Issue
2023 Track Chair, AAPS PharmSci360 Scientific Programming Committee Formulation and Delivery Track
2023 Editorial advisory board, Drug Delivery and Translational Research
2022 AAPS Nanotechnology Focus Group Leadership Team member
2022 NIH IGIS Study Section review panel
2022 NCI R21/R01 Study Section review panel
2021 UConn Radiation Safty Committee
2021 Track Chair, AAPS PharmSci360 Scientific Programming Committee Formulation and Delivery Track
2021 NIH IGIS study section review panel
2020 NSF Review panel
2020 Faculty Committee Chair, National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology & Education
2020 Editorial advisory board, Pharmaceutical Research
2020 AAPS PharmSciTech Theme issue editor: Advances in Nanotechnology-Based Drug Delivery
2020 2020 NIPTE Annual Research Conference Organizing Committee
2019- NIH ad hoc Grant reviewer
2019 UConn IDEA Grant reviewer
2019 Grant Reviewer for Poland National Science Centre
2019 Grant Reviewer for Breast Cancer Now in United Kindom
2019 Faculty Committee Chair-Elect, National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology & Education
2019 Editorial advisory board, AAPS PharmSciTech
2019 Co-Chair of Nano Focus Group, National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology & Education (NIPTE)
2019 2019 NIPTE Annual Research Conference Organizing Committee
2018 Grant Reviewer for Israel Science Foundation
2018 Department PTR Committee member
2017- UConn Research Excellence Program grant reviewer in 2017, 2018 and 2020
2017- UConn IACUC member
2017- UConn AAPS Student Chapter Advisor
2017- School of Pharmacy Honors Committee
2017 Secretary, Sino-American Pharmaceutical Professionals Association in CT
2017 Chair, Faculty Search Committee in Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
2017 Book proposal review for CRC Press/Taylor and Francis
2016- Excutive Committee, Sino-American Pharmaceutical Professionals Association
2016- Editorial board member of International Journal of Cancer and Clinical Research
2016 Grant Reviewer for Biomedical Innovation Fund of the French National Research Agency
2016 UConn IDEA Grant reviewer
2015- Associate Guest Editor of BioMed Research International
2015 Abstract reviewer for Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Annual Meeting
2014 Grant Reviewer for the Dutch Cancer Society
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists 2006-Present
Controlled Release Society 2008-Present
American Association of Cancer Research 2010-Present
Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2014-Present
Sino-American Pharmaceutical Professionals Association in CT 2015-Present
National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology & Education 2016-Present
| xiuling.lu@uconn.edu | |
| Phone | (860)486-0517 |
| Fax | (860)486-2076 |
| Mailing Address | 69 North Eagleville Rd |
| Office Location | PBB 436 |
| Campus | Storrs |