At the invitation of the State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Prof. LU Qingbin from the University of Waterloo, Canada, visited Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (FJIRSM) on June 2，2010. During his stay, Prof. LU delivered a seminar report entitled “A New Transdisciplinary Frontier – Femtomedicine: from DNA Damage to Cancer Therapy” and carried out detailed discussion with the research staff of FJIRSM.

Prof. LU received his BSC and MSC in physics from Fuzhou University in 1986 and 1989, respectively, and his PhD in physics from the University of Newcastle Australia in 1997. He was a postdoctoral fellow and then a Research Associate position at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA, where he conducted research on electron-induced reactions of molecules at ice surfaces. His work led to the discovery of an electron-transfer mechanism and a new mechanism for the formation of the ozone hole. Dr. LU joined the University of Waterloo Canada as an Assistant Professor in 2004 and was promoted to an Associate Professor in Physics, Chemistry and Biology in 2008. At Waterloo, Dr. LU is directing a femtobiology and femtomedicine laboratory integrating state-of-the-art ultrafast laser spectroscopic techniques with molecular biology and cell biology techniques. He has published a number of papers in high-impact journals incLUding Physics Reports, Physical Review Letters, Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Mutation Research—Reviews, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Molecular Pharmaceutics, etc., and has two US patents on anticancer drugs.