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Dr. Yi Lu received his B.S. degree from Peking University in 1986 and his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1992. Following his doctorate, he conducted postdoctoral research in Professor Harry B. Gray's group at Caltech. In 1994, Dr. Lu began his independent academic career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a tenure-track assistant professor, and he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2000 and Full Professor in 2004. In 2010, he became the Jay Ann Schenck Endowed Professor. In August 2021, Dr. Lu joined the University of Texas at Austin as the Robert J.V. Johnson-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry. His research interests lie at the interface of chemistry and biology, focusing on the computational design and directed evolution of artificial metalloenzymes and environmentally friendly biocatalysts for renewable energy production and pharmaceutical synthesis. He seeks to develop novel biocatalysts for synthetic organic chemistry and create sensors for metal ions and metabolites to advance fields such as metallomics and glycomics, improving medical diagnostics and therapies for various diseases. Dr. Lu's contributions to biochemistry and metalloenzyme design have earned him recognitions such as the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professors Award and Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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