Selected Achievements and Awards:

Member of Society of Toxicology
Vice student representative, In Vitro and Alternative Methods Special Section, SOT Student representative, Immunotoxicology Special Section, SOT Colgate-Palmolive Award for Graduate Student Research Training, SOT Best Presentation by a Student Award, Immunotoxicology Specialty Section, SOT

Publications/Abstracts

Prior to entering program
Lu H, Li J, Zhang D, Stoner GD, Huang C. Molecular mechanisms involved in chemoprevention of black raspberry extracts: from transcription factors to their target genes. Nutr Cancer. 2006;54(1):69-78.

Zhang D, Lu H, Li J, Shi X, Huang C. Essential roles of ERKs and p38K in up-regulation of GST A1 expression by Maotai content in human hepatoma cell line Hep3B. Mol Cell Biochem. 2006; 293(1-2):161-171.

Li J, Lu H, Huang C. NFAT3 is Required for EGF-Induced COX-2 Transcription, but Neither iNOS Transcription Nor Cell Transformation in Cl 41 Cells. Mol Cell Biochem. 2006; 289(1-2): 73-82.

Lu H, Ouyang W, Huang C. Inflammation, a key event in cancer development.
Mol Cancer Res. 2006 Apr;4(4):221-33.

Lu H, Shi X, Costa M, Huang C. Carcinogenic effect of nickel compounds. Mol Cell Biochem. 2005 Nov;279(1-2):45-67.

Since entering program
Lu H, Kaplan BLF, and Kaminski NE: Suppression of T cell co-stimulator ICOS by cannabinoid compound delta-9-tetrahydrolcannabinol (THC). Forty-Seventh SOT Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. 2008. (Platform presentation)

Lu H, Kaplan BLF, Ngaotepprutaram T, and Kaminski, NE (2008). The cannabinoid compound Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) suppresses inducible co-stimulator (ICOS) in T cells. Submitted.