Jianqin Lu, BPharm, PhD

Jianqin Lu, BPharm, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Pharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics at R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy (RKCCOP). The Lu research laboratory strives to develop innovative, safe, and efficacious therapeutics at the interface of drug delivery, synthetic chemistry, pharmaceutics, nanotechnology, biomaterials, and tumor immunology to address the pressing unmet needs in current cancer and other diseases therapy and prevention, particularly in the emerging field of combination immunochemotherapy.

Dr. Lu’s research has been published in Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Biomaterials, etc, and has resulted in a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) (R35) from NIH/NIGMS, an R01 from NIH/NCI, a Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Foundation Research Starter Grant in Drug Delivery, and several pilot and seed grants from the State of Arizona's Technology and Research Initiative Fund (TRIF)/BIO5 Institute and NIH-sponsored The Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center (SWEHSC).

Recipient of the Norman R. and Priscilla A. Farnsworth Award at the University of Pittsburgh, the NIH/NCI Ruth L. Kirschstein Institutional National Research Service Award (T32) in Tumor Immunology at UCLA, A. Jay Gandolfi New Investigator Award at UArizona, and the 2022 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Pharmaceutics Research Award. Dr. Lu serves as the Director for Pharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics Track at RKCCOP, the Associate Editor for Frontiers in Medical Technology: Nano-Based Drug Delivery and was the Secretary of Knowledge Management in AACP Pharmaceutics Section.