Kurt Q. Lu MD
Eugene and Gloria Bauer Professor of Dermatology; Director, CounterACT Center of Excellence; Associate Director, Skin Biology and Diseases Resource-Based Center and In-Vivo Skin Testing Unit, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IllinoisKurt Lu, MD, is the Eugene and Gloria Bauer Professor of Dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. He is a physician-scientist with expertise on tissue injury, inflammation, and wound healing and is Director of the NIH-funded CounterACT Center of Excellence and Associate Director of Skin Biology & Disease Resourced-based Center. His research focuses understanding immune-mediated mechanism of tissue damage from stressors including sunburns, chemical exposures, and side-effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The group's work led to the development of vitamin D3 as a novel immune-modulating intervention for promoting tissue repair from bench to first-in-human clinical studies. Under his leadership, the center is advancing basic findings for the treatment for injury of the skin and eyes involving novel immune-modulators, drug repurposing, and optimization of drug delivery with nanotechnology-based solutions.