Please join us for a virtual Research Happy Hour at the DACCPM!

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to have Dr. Long-Jun Wu joining us for the next Research Happy Hour. Dr. Long-Jun Wu obtained PhD of Neurobiology from University of Science and Technology of China in 2004. He received his postdoc trainings at University of Toronto (2004-2008) and Harvard Medical School (2008-2011). Prior to UTHealth Houston, he was Professor of Neurology and Associate Director for Neuroscience PhD program at Mayo Clinic. Currently, Dr. Wu is Professor and Founding director of Center for Neuroimmunology and Glial Biology, Institute of Molecular Medicine at UTHealth Houston. He is C. Harold and Lorine G. Wallace Distinguished University Chair. Dr. Wu’s current recent research primarily focuses on the neuroimmune interaction, particularly the function of microglia, in normal and diseased brain. Dr. Wu has published more than 180 peer-reviewed articles, including those in Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, Science Translational Medicine, Nature Communications, Journal of Clinical Investigation, PNAS, etc. His work is impactful in the field with more than 17000 citations and H index of 73 (Google Scholar, 12/2024). He received NINDS Outstanding Investigator Award (R35) in 2023, and was the Teacher of the Year at Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Science in 2020. Dr. Wu was a standing member for NIH CMBG study section and ad hoc reviewer for multiple study sections. He serves as an Associate Editor for Neuroscience, Molecular Brain, Neuroscience Bulletin and Cell & Biosciences as well as in editorial boards for a number of journals including Glia, Brain Behavior and Immunity, Molecular Pain.

All talks and discussions are now featured at our new webpage: Research Happy Hour.

Yiying Zhang, host of this RHH