Xin Lu

Xin Lu is a professor of Cancer Biology and Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of Oxford. She is known for her discovery of and research on the ASPP family of proteins.

Education Xin Lu completed her undergraduate education in Biochemistry at Sichuan University in 1982 and her master's degree in Cell and Molecular Biology at the Cancer Institute, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in 1985. She moved to University College London (UCL) to complete her PhD studies supervised by Birgit Lane, and published her thesis A study of intermediate filament formation using retrovirus-mediated gene transfer in 1991.

Research and career In 1993, after a short postdoc with David Lane at Dundee University, she joined the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR), which was based at St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College London and set up her own research group.

Honours and awards Fellow of the Royal Society (2020) Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2013) Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (2011–2022) Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (2007–2022)

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