Ming Luo, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Microbiology

Telephone: (205) 934-4259
Office Location: CBSE 111, zip 0005
Email:  mingluo@uab.edu

Research Focus:  Structure-Based Approaches to Anti-Infectious Agents

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Biography

Ming Luo (b. 1959), Professor, received his Bachelor's Degree in Science from the Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, China in 1982. His graduate work was to determine the three-dimensional structure of spherical viruses by X-ray crystallography. He completed his Ph.D. studies at the Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University in 1987. His work on the Mengo virus structure established a novel approach to structure determination of spherical viruses. Besides work, he enjoys tennis and photography.