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Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
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Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
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Lue, Neal Fan-Nan
 (212) 746-6506  (212) 746-8587
Neal F. Lue was a native of Taiwan. He emigrated to the United States while in high school and graduated with a B.S. degree in Natural Sciences from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He was accorded the honor of Junior Phi Beta Kappa as an undergraduate. He then matriculated at Stanford University School of Medicine pursuing both an M.D. and a Ph.D. degree. His thesis work, performed under the supervision of Nobel laureate Roger D. Kornberg, was to investigate the mechanisms of eukaryotic transcription by RNA polymerase II. The most notable accomplishment in the thesis was his discovery of the first in vitro transcription system for yeast RNA polymerase II. Upon completing his Ph.D., Dr. Lue joined Dr. James C. Wang's laboratory at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the research focus was on understanding the mechanisms of eukaryotic type I DNA topoisomerase. His efforts there resulted in the first crystal structure of a domain of the type I enzyme. In 1996, Dr. Lue took a faculty position at the Cornell University Medical College in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. He was awarded tenure in 2004. His research goal since becoming a faculty member has been to unravel the molecular mechanisms and functions of telomerase. Dr. Lue's telomerase-related studies have been recognized by several awards including the Irma Hirschl/Monique Weill-Caulier Career Scientist Award and the ACS TIAA-CREF Award in Cancer Research. His laboratory has received funding from the American Cancer Society, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the U.S. Army Breast Cancer Research Program, and the National Institute of Health.
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Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine, 1990
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M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine, 1991
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