Dr. Wu obtained her PhD in Neuropharmacology in 1995 at the Department of Pharmacology, Nanjing Medical University, China. She pursued postdoctoral training and was then recruited as associate Professor at the Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. In 2000 Dr. Wu was recruited to the NIH to perform further postdoctoral training. She joined the faculty of Georgetown University Medical Center in 2007 and then moved to the University of Maryland School of Medicine in February 2010 and is currently Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology.