Benjamin Y. Lu, MD, PhD

Benjamin Y. Lu, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology and Hematology) and Neurology and the Kathryn Louloudis Scholar in Cancer Research at the Yale School of Medicine in addition to a Medical Oncologist at Smilow Cancer Hospital. He received his MD from the New York University School of Medicine with Honors in Research. Dr. Lu completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital and his fellowship in Medical Oncology at Yale Cancer Center, where he also served as the inaugural Chief Fellow. His clinical and research interests involve understanding and improving immune therapies for patients with primary and metastatic brain tumors.

Dr. Lu also directs the Yale Tumor Neuroimmunology Lab, which is dedicated to understanding how the immune system interacts with cancers in the brain, with the ultimate goal of developing clinically relevant biomarkers and therapeutic targets for patients with primary and metastatic brain tumors. Dr. Lu’s research has been supported by the ASCO Conquer Cancer Foundation, American Brain Tumor Association, Yale SPORE in Lung Cancer, Yale SPORE in Skin Cancer, Yale Cancer Center Advanced Training Program for Physician Scientists (T32), and the Yale Cancer Center Calabresi Immuno-Oncology Training Program (K12).