Biography
Ryan Lu is a K99 postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute, MIT, working with Jonathan Weissman. His research focuses on the genetic and epigenetic foundations of aging and age-related diseases, using the eye as a model system. During his PhD with David Sinclair at Harvard, he developed an AAV-based in vivo reprogramming approach that restored vision in glaucoma and aging models (Nature, 2020). His current work applies functional genomics to systematically uncover novel rejuvenation pathways.