Dr. Dan Luo is an associate professor of Biological
Engineering in the department of Biological and Environmental
Engineering at Cornell University. He currently is
also a faculty member in the Agriculture and Biological
Engineering Graduate Field and Biomedical Engineering
Graduate Field. In addition, he is a faculty member
in Nanobiotechnology center (NBTC), Cornell Center
for Materials Research (CCMR), Kavli Institute for
Nanoscale Science, Vetebrate Genomics Center, and
New Life Sciennce Initiatives at Cornell.
Dr. Luo obtained his BS degree from the University
of Science and Technology of China (USTC) with an
undergraduate thesis on computer simulation of DNA-protein
interactions. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from The
Ohio State University in the Molecular, Cellular,
and Developmental Biology program, working on topoisomerases
and DNA networking. After a postdoctoral training
in the School of Chemical Engineering at Cornell focusing
on synthetic DNA delivery systems (gene therapy and
DNA vaccination), he joined the Department of Biological
and Environmental Engineering at Cornell in May 2001.
Dr. Luo's overall career objectives are to integrate
molecular biology with engineering and to educate
a first-rate, new generation of biological engineers.
The underlying philosophy of his research and teaching
is to integrate "what has been discovered" in molecular
and cellular biology in order to engineer "what has
never been," and engineering "what has never been"
to discover more "what is" in science ...and the cycle
goes on.
The current research focus of Dr. Luo's group is
on the Nucleic Acid Engineering, Nucleic Acid Engineered
Materials and Devices, Nanobiotechnology and Drug
Delivery. Details can be found
here.
Dr. Luo's CV.
