Professor
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Dr. Shu obtained a B.S. degree in Theoretical Physics from Sichuan University in Chengdu, and an M.S. degree in Condensed Matter Physics from Fudan University in Shanghai, China (2000-2003). In 2007, he completed his Ph.D. in Biophysics (Protein Crystallography) at University of Oregon. Shu then joined Dr. Roger Tsien (Nobel Laureate)’s group at UCSD for postdoc training in Biochemistry. In 2010, he started his independent lab at UCSF. Dr. Shu’s group loves designing innovative imaging technologies based on new physical and chemical principles for visualizing and manipulating cell signaling including protein-protein interaction, kinase and protease activity and phase separation. Dr. Shu has published on leading journals Science, Molecular Cell, PNAS, Nature Chem Biol, Nature Microbiology, Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, JACS, ACS Central Science. In addition, he is the inventor of 11 patents and co-founder of Granule Therapeutics. He has received numerous awards including the prestigious NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, NIH Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award (MIRA), Breakthrough Biomedical Research Award, and Dean’s award for excellence in teaching since 2018 (6 times in a row).
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CT