UCSF
San Francisco, United States
Dr. Rongze “Olivia” Lu is an Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery and Brain Tumor Center at UCSF. Her lab is focused on investigating the molecular mechanisms of immune suppression and evasion in brain tumor microenvironment with the goal to develop novel immunotherapeutic for brain tumor. Dr. Lu’s previous research has identified that protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) regulates immune suppression in macrophages and T cells in multiple tumor models.
Dr. Lu received her Ph.D in Cancer Immunology from Beckman Research Institute at City of Hope. She then pursued post doctorate studies at Genentech. Olivia serves on the Early Career Scientist Committee since 2020 and has organized grant writing workshop for SITC annual meeting since 2020. She has received Career Development Award for Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program from Department of Defense, Early Career Investigator Award from Keystone conference, NIH SPORE subaward and a RO1 award to study the role of STING-Type I IFN signaling in glioma associated macrophage/microglia.
