Hang Lu, associate professor in Georgia Tech’sSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been selected to receivethe CSB2 Prize in Systems Biology, which is sponsored by MerrimackPharmaceuticals and by the Council for Systems Biology in Boston. 

The CSB2 Prize in Systems Biology is awardedannually to a young scientist for exceptional contributions to the developmentand implementation of new methods in biomedical research. Lu was selected fordevelopment of microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip instruments for manipulating andstudying living embryos and nematodes.

Lu, who is part of Georgia Tech’s Parker H. PetitInstitute of Bioengineering and Bioscience, received her Ph.D. from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003 and served as a postdoc atthe Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California andthe Rockefeller University before coming to Georgia Tech. 

She has received other awards including the DARPA Young Faculty Award,the DuPont Young Professor Award and the National Institutes ofHealth Mentored Quantitative Research CAREER Development Award. Her researchlies at the interface of engineering and biology. Lu's lab engineersmicrofluidic devices and BioMEMS (Bio Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) tostudy neuroscience, genetics, cancer biology, systems biology, andbiotechnology. 

The Council for Systems Biology in Bostonbuilds local, regional, and national links between academic and industriallaboratories active in the areas of systems and computational biology. CSB2 isdedicated to promoting quantitative, systems and synthetic biology in theBoston area and beyond by promoting interactions among academic andpharmaceutical laboratories, organizing international symposia and recognizingthe achievements of promising young scientists and engineers.