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Born in 1966, Dr. Luo grew up in Shanghai, China, and earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China. After obtaining PhD at Brandeis University, and postdoctoral training at UCSF, Dr. Luo started his own lab at Stanford University in 1996. Together with his postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, Dr. Luo studies how neural circuits are assembled during development and how their architectures enable them to perform specific functions in adults. Dr. Luo is currently the Ann and Bill Swindells Professor of Biology at Stanford University, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He teaches neurobiology to Stanford undergraduate and graduate students. His single-author textbook “Principles of Neurobiology” (1st edition 2015; 2nd edition 2020) is widely used for undergraduate and graduate courses across the world.
Dr. Luo has served on the editorial boards of Neuron, eLife, Annu Review Neurosci, Cell, and PNAS, and the advisory boards for Pew Scholars Program and Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. He is recipient of the McKnight Technological Innovation in Neuroscience Award, the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Young Investigator Award, the Jacob Javits Award from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, HW Mossman Award from American Association of Anatomists, the Lawrence Katz Prize, the Pradel Research Award of National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and SfN Education in Neuroscience Award. In 2012, Dr. Luo was selected to the NAS and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently the chair the Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Section at NAS.