Dr. Zheng-Rong Lu is M. Frank Rudy and Margaret Domiter Rudy Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Case School of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Lu received his B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from Lanzhou University, and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China. In 1992, Dr. Lu was recruited as Associate Professor of Chemistry and promoted to Professor of Chemistry shortly after at Wuhan University in China. In 2002, Dr. Lu was recruited as Assistant Professor in Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Utah, and promoted to a tenured Associate Professor in 2006. Dr. Lu’s research efforts involve molecular imaging, novel MRI contrast agents, drug delivery systems, and multifunctional delivery systems for nucleic acids. He has over 140 peer-reviewed scientific publications, eight book chapters, and four US patents. He is a Principal Investigator of several major grants from the NIH. He has served on numerous NIH study sections, scientific advisory board of Pharmaceutical Research, Molecular Pharmaceutics, and American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.