亚利桑那大学Jianqin Lu课题组招多名药物化学/纳米医学博士后及多名全奖药剂学博士

Dr. Lu is a John A. and Frances P. Ware Endowed Associate Professor and the Director of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics Track at R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy, one of the premier Pharmacy Schools (ranked No. 4 by American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy), at the University of Arizona (UArizona), a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), a distinction to only 69 North America's premier research institutions. UArizona had more than $955 million total R&D expenditures in 2023, which ranked No. 36 in US by NSF Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey  (https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=rankingBySource&ds=herd  ). 

The overarching goal of the Lu lab strives to develop innovative, safe, and efficacious therapeutics at the interface of drug discovery and delivery, synthetic chemistry, pharmaceutics, nanotechnology, and tumor immunology to address the pressing unmet needs in current cancer, heart, and Alzheimer's diseases therapy and prevention. 

Dr. Lu’s research work has been published in Nature Cancer, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications etc, and has secured > $9 Million research funding including a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) (R35) and 2 R01 grants from the National Cancer Institute of NIH, UArizona Startup and Retention Funds, and other grants from PhRMA Foundation, State of Arizona, UArizona Comprehensive Cancer Center, etc. Visit Lu lab website at: https://www.pharmacy.arizona.edu/person/jianqin-lu and https://wonderfulearth.wixsite.com/jianqinlu 

Recent Representative Publications:

1. Wang, Z., …, Lu, J*. Nature Cancer. In press (2025)

2. Wang, Z#., Li, W#., …, Lu, J*. Nature Communications. 15, 2073 (2024)

3. Wang, Z., …, Lu, J*. Nature Communications. 14, 7235, (2023)

4. Wang, Z., …, Lu, J*. Nature Nanotechnology. 16, 1130–1140 (2021)

4 Postdoctoral Research Associate are available immediately. Candidates should have a strong track record in medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutics, drug delivery, nanomedicine, or immunology.  

2 PhD students with full scholarship is available immediately. Candidates should have training in medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutics, drug delivery, nanomedicine, or pharmacology. Candidates with first author publication(s) in related fields is preferable.

Applicants should send cover letter and CV to Dr. Lu at lu6@arizona.edu