Lu Song
University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Biography
Lu Song is the Associate Director for Clinical Chemistry at UCLA Medical Center since joining the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UCLA School of Medicine in 2012. Dr. Song obtained her B.S. in analytical chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1982, and her PhD in Physical Chemistry from University of Washington in 1989. She completed postdoctoral training in cell and molecular biology at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in 1991, and clinical chemistry training at the Mayo Clinic in 1998. Dr. Song has held technical director positions in both hospital and reference clinical laboratories. In the six years before joining the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UCLA School of Medicine, Dr. Song was a scientific director for the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Immunoassay at Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute in Chantilly, Virginia. Her research activities are focused on clinical utilization of biomarkers in the detection and/or monitoring of heart disease, cancer, endocrine disorders and other diseases.
Abstract
Abstract : Interference of immunoglobulin paraproteins with chemistry assays