Education
 
1996: BA, Dartmouth College, High Honors
2001: PhD, University of California San Diego
2003: MD, University of California San Diego
 
Selected Professional Memberships and Appointments
 
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
American Academy of Neurology
American Medical Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Society for Neuroscience
 
Selected Honors and Awards
 
Paul K. Richter Memorial Research Grant
Dartmouth Biology Department Honors Thesis Research Grant
Sigma Xi Research Competition, First Place
Pediatric AIDS Foundation Service Award
Merck Foundation Fellowship
Presidential Scholar Research Award
Grissom Foundation Research Fellowship
Research Award - World Alzheimer's Congress 2000
Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New American
Travel Award - Society for Neuroscience
 
Contact
 
Daniel Lu MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Neurological Surgery
505 Parnassus Ave. Rm. M779
San Francisco, CA 94143-0112
E-mail: ludan@neurosurg.ucsf.edu
 
Selected Recent Publications
 
Lu DC, Theodore P, Korn WM, Chou D. Esophageal erosion 9 years after anterior cervical plate implantation. Surg Neurol 2008;[Epub ahead of print].
 
Lawton MT, Lu DC, Young WL; University of California, San Francisco Brain Arteriovenous Malformation Study Project. Sylvian fissure arteriovenous malformations: an application of the Sugita classification to 28 surgical patients. Neurosurgery 2007; 61(1):29-38.
 
Lu DC, Sun PP. Bone morphogenetic protein for salvage fusion in an infant with Down syndrome and craniovertebral instability. Case report. J Neurosurg 2007;106(6 Suppl):480-3.
 
Aryan HE, Lu DC, Acosta FL Jr, Ames CP. Stand-alone anterior lumbar discectomy and fusion with plate: initial experience. Surg Neurol 2007;68(1):7-13.
 
Lu DC, Chou D. Flatback Syndrome. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2007;18(2):289-294.
 
Aryan HE, Lu DC, Acosta FL Jr, Hartl R, McCormick PW, Ames CP. Bioabsorbable anterior cervical plating: initial multicenter clinical and radiographic experience. Spine 2007;32(10):1084-8.
 
Aryan HE, Lu DC, Acosta FL Jr, Ames CP. Corpectomy followed by the placement of instrumentation with titanium cages and recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 for vertebral osteomyelitis. J Neurosurg Spine 2007;6(1):23-30.
 
Aryan HE, Nakaji P, Lu DC, Alksne JF. Multimodality treatment of trigeminal neuralgia: impact of radiosurgery and high resolution magnetic resonance imaging. J Clin Neurosci 2006;13(2):239-44.
 
Shaked GM, Kummer MP, Lu DC, Galvan V, Bredesen DE, Koo EH. Abeta induces cell death by direct interaction with its cognate extracellular domain on APP (APP 597-624). FASEB J 2006;20(8):1254-6.
 
Binder DK, Lu DC, Barbaro NM. Multiple root avulsions from the brachial plexus. Case illustration. Neurosurg Focus 2005;19(3):E9.
 
Aryan HE, Meltzer HS, Lu DC, Ozgur BM, Levy ML, Bruce DA. Management of pilocytic astrocytoma with diffuse leptomeningeal spread: two cases and review of the literature. Childs Nerv Syst 2005;21(6):477-81.
 
Lu DC, Shaked GM, Masliah E, Bredesen DE, Koo EH. Amyloid beta protein toxicity mediated by the formation of amyloid-beta protein precursor complexes. Ann Neurol 2003;54:781-9.
 
Lu DC, Soriano S, Bredesen DE, Koo EH. Caspase cleavage of the amyloid precursor protein modulates amyloid beta-protein toxicity. J Neurochem 2003;87:733-41.
 
Galvan V, Chen S, Lu D, Logvinova A, Goldsmith P, Koo EH, Bredesen DE. Caspase cleavage of members of the amyloid precursor family of proteins. J Neurochem 2002;82:283-94.
 
Soriano S, Lu DC, Chandra S, Pietrzik CU, Koo EH. The amyloidogenic pathway of amyloid precursor protein (APP) is independent of its cleavage by caspases. J Biol Chem 2001;276:29045-50.
 
Lu DC, Rabizadeh S, Chandra S, Shayya RF, Ellerby LM, Ye X, Salvesen GS, Koo EH, Bredesen DE. A second cytotoxic proteolytic peptide derived from amyloid beta-protein precursor. Nat Med 2000;6:397-404.
 
Lynn J, Teno J, Dresser R, Brock D, Nelson HL, Nelson JL, Kielstein R, Fukuchi Y, Lu D, Itakura H. Dementia and advance-care planning: perspectives from three countries on ethics and epidemiology. J Clin Ethics 1999;10:271-85.
 
Lu DC, Erlichman JS, Leiter JC. Diethyl pyrocarbonate (DEPC) inhibits CO2 chemosensitivity in Helix aspersa. Respir Physiol 1998;111:65-78.