Rong Lu named Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Scholar

Why do some leukemia patients have more aggressive disease, and why do some of their cancer cells resist treatment? USC Stem Cell scientist Rong Lu is tackling these critical questions with $550,000 of support from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Career Development Program.

The program is designed to support talented blood cancer researchers in the early phase of their careers.

“It’s a new research effort in the lab and also a new research area for myself, because I’m trained as a stem cell biologist,” said Lu, who is now a Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Scholar. “We will use a tool that we developed for studying stem cells to study leukemia cells from patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.”