Lei Fu is a Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and also serves as Associate Dean in the School of Pharmacy at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.  His research group interfaces chemistry and medicine, mainly focusing on 1) drug discovery and development; 2) process research on drug API and related substances; 3) traditional Chinese Medicines as botanical cosmeceuticals; 4) medical devices as targeted drug delivery systems and 5) human hibernation studies using biomimetic models of cytochrome c oxidase.

Fu invented two cosmeceutical products containing traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) and licensed to German companies.

He received his B.Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in Chemistry from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, and his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Stanford University.