Ming Luo, Ph.D
Principal Investigator

Director of Key Laboratory of Structural Biology

Tel: +86-755-26033154

Fax: +86-755-26033154

E-mail: luoming@pkusz.edu.cn

Education & Experience
Jan 2013 – Now Professor, School of Chemical Biology & Biotechnology,

Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School

2000-2004 Adjunct Distinguished Changjiang Professor, Peking University

1996 -present Professor, Department of Microbiology,

University of Alabama at Birmingham

1994-present Associate Director, Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering,

University of Alabama at Birmingham

1992-1996 Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology,

University of Alabama at Birmingham

1987-1992 Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology,

University of Alabama at Birmingham

1987-1987 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University

1982-1987 Ph.D in Biological Science, Purdue University, Indiana, USA

1978-1982 B.S in Chemistry, Wuhan University, P. R. China

Honors and Awards

1989 Awarded the Sidhu Award of the Pittsburgh Diffraction Society

Professional Service

2007-2011 Member, study section VIRA, NIH

2002–present ZRG1, Special Emphasis Panel. NIH

2002, EVR Study Section. NIH

1998, site visit, Brookhaven National Laboratory

1997, CHM study section, center grant from Scripps Institute

1997, site visit, Brookhaven National Laboratory

1995 BBCB study section, ad hoc member

1994, site visit, Thomas Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia

Patent

1. “COMPOUNDS USEFUL AS ANTIVIRAL AGENTS, COMPOSITIONS, AND METHODS OF USE”, DOCKET NO. 21085.0169U2

2. “Chromogenic substrates of sialidase and methods of making and using the same”. US Patent No. 6,844,346. Issued on January 18, 2005.

3.“Chromogenic substrates of sialidase and methods of making and using the same”. US Patent No. 6,812,332. Issued on November 2, 2004.

4.“Chromogenic substrates of sialidase and methods of making and using the same”. US Patent No. 6,512,100. Issued on January 28, 2003.

5.“Pyrrolidin-2-one compounds and their use as neuraminidase inhibitors”, US Patent No. 6,509,359. Issued on January 21, 2003.

6.“Smart aerogel”. US Patent 6,447,991. Issued on September 10, 2002.

7.“Inhibitors of bacterial sialidase” US Patent No. 6,114,386. Issued on September 5, 2000.

8.“Crystallized N-terminal domain of influenza virus matrix protein M1 and method of determining and using the same”. US Patent No. 6,090,609. Issued on July 18, 2000.

9.“Methods of inhibiting bacterial sialidase”. US Patent No. 5,985,859. Issued on November 16, 1999.

10.“Inhibitors of Bacterial Sialidase and Methods of Making and Using the same”. US Patent No. 5,714,509. Issued on February 3, 1998.

11."Inhibitors of Influenza Virus Neuraminidase and Methods and the Use of the same". US Patent No. 5,453,533. Issued on September 26, 1995.

Editorial Service

Luo M. “Influenza virus entry”. 2012. p201-222. in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 726: Viral Molecular Machines. Eds: Rossmann MG and Rao VB. Springer, New York.

Luo M. “Negative Strand RNA Virus”. 2011. World Scientific Publishing, Singapore.

Luo M, Green TJ and Zhou ZH. “Assembly of vesicular stomatitis virus”. 2011. p175-192. in Negative strand RNA virus. Ed: Luo M. World Scientific Publishing, Singapore.

Chen Y, Qiu S, Luan C-H and Luo M. “A high throughput platform for eukaryotic proteins”. 2008. p209-220. in Structural Proteomics: High-throughput methods. Eds: Kobe B, Guss M and Huber T. Humana Press, Totowa.

Luo, M. “Virus Assembly: Nonenveloped”. 2008.p200-204. In Encyclopedia of Virology. Eds: B.W.J. Mahy & M. van Regenmortel. Academic Press.

Luo, M. “Design of New Drugs Based on Protein Structure”. 1997. p43-49 in Biotechnology International. Eds: Fox and Connor, Universal Medical Press, San Francisco.

Luo, M. "Virus Structure: Atomic Structure". 1995. p 1571-1573. in Encyclopedia of Virology. Eds: Granoff and Webster R. Academic Press.