Helen H. Lu

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Helen H. Lu is a Chinese American biomedical engineer and the Hudson professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. Her work focuses on regenerative engineering, especially the interface where soft tissue meets bone. She earned both her bachelor’s and PhD in bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania, with a PhD thesis on bioactive glass for bone repair. Her postdoctoral training was with Cato T. Laurencin at Drexel University and with David Kaplan at Tufts University. Lu joined Columbia in 2001 and leads the Biomaterials and Interface Tissue Engineering Laboratory. She became a full professor in 2014 and also has appointments in dental and craniofacial bioengineering. She serves on the TERMIS American Continental Council. Her honors include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2010 and election as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2011. Her research focuses on biomaterials for regenerating tendons and ligaments using bioinspired approaches, with current work on rotator cuff repair and other soft tissue–bone interfaces. Lu has said integrative tissue engineering could someday pave the way for total limb regeneration.