Medical Director
St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Lu Wang, MD, PhD, is an Associate Member and the Medical Director of Molecular Pathology in the Department of Pathology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (SJCRH). Dr. Wang is a board-certified clinical molecular geneticist. She received her MD and PhD degrees from Shandong University Cheeloo College of Medicine and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine/Shanghai Institute of Hematology, respectively, and completed her post-graduate training at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City. Dr. Wang had been a faculty member in the Department of Pathology at MSKCC from 2010 to 2017 and joined the faculty at SJCRH in late 2017. Her clinical research focuses on genomic profiling of rare tumors with an emphasis on clinical translation of potential diagnostic markers and therapeutic targets as well as clinical tests development. Her research lab has focused on functional characterization of oncogenic gene fusions, including HEY1::NCOA2 fusion, the characteristic genetic alteration for mesenchymal chondrosarcoma.