Dr. Tao Lu is a tenure-track Assistant Professor and principle investigator at Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics as well as a member of Experimental and Developmental Therapeutics Research Program at Simon Cancer Center at Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Lu obtained her Ph.D. degree from University of Toledo, School of Medicine, USA. She then did her postdoctoral training with the world renowned scientist Dr. George R. Stark at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA. Dr. Lu has been working on discovery of novel regulators of NF-kB, and is particularly interested in epigenetic regulation of transcription factors and their role in cancer. Dr. Lu has won several international awards, including the First Place Prize of Young Investigator Award at Tri-Society [Society of Leukocyte Biology (SLB) & International Cytokine Society (ICS) & International Society of Interferon and Cytokine Research (ISICR)] conference and Seymour and Vivian Milstein Young Investigator Award at ISICR&ICS International conference.