Diana Lu

Diana grew up in Newton, MA and graduated from Tufts University, summa cum laude, in 2011 with a B.S. degree in Biology. She then worked as a Research Associate at the Broad Institute in the lab of Dr. Aviv Regev. There, she helped develop single-cell expression profiling pipelines and apply them at scale to reveal functional heterogeneity in normal and cancer cells. In 2015, she entered the MD-PhD program at Harvard and completed her pre-clinical studies in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology program. For her PhD thesis, Diana studies Ewing sarcoma in the Stegmaier Lab at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. She is interested in characterizing the transcriptional networks that drive this disease to highlight novel therapeutic strategies. Ultimately, Diana hopes to work as a pediatric oncologist and lead research efforts that advance patient care.