Dr. Bai Lu is currently a tenured Professor in the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Tsinghua University. After postdoctoral training with the Nobel laureate Paul Greengard at Rockefeller Univ., Dr. Lu became an Assistant Professor at Roche Institute of Molecular Biology/Columbia Univ. He joined National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1996, and became the Chief of the Neural Development and Plasticity Section in 2001 (tenured). In 2004, he was named the Associate Director of Gene, Cognition and Psychosis Program (GCAP), the largest translational medicine program at NIH at that time. Dr. Lu was recruited to the GlaxoSmithKlein (GSK) R&D Center as the vice president in China in July, 2009. In Oct., 2013, Dr. Lu became a professor of Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Science, and the Executive Vice Dean, in charge of Tsinghua Univ. Medical School, until Jan. 2016.