Professor of Practice, Biodesign Virginia G. Piper Center for Personalized Diagnostics and Associate Faculty, Biodesign Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines and Virotherapy
Biography
Dr. Lucas moved to the University of Florida in 2006_ from the Robarts Research Institute and University of Western Ontario in London,Ontario, Canada, where she has been a principal investigator studying inflammation, specifically monocyte and T lymphocyte activation in vascular disease. Dr. Lucas is also co-inventor and co-founding scientist for Viron Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company that is now in clinical trial analyzing viral anti-inflammatory proteins as a new class of therapeutic agents.
