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Department of Radiation Medicine & Applied Sciences Radiation Medicine

Asona Lui, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

  • B.A. | African & African American Studies, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis MO 2009

    M.S. | Biological Sciences, Human Physiology Track, Chicago State University, Chicago IL 2011

    Ph.D. | University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City KS 2017

    M.D. | University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City KS 2019

    Residency | University of California San Diego, La Jolla CA 2024

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About Dr. Lui

Dr. Lui is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Radiation Oncology and a member of the RMAS Center for Precision Radiation Medicine (CPRM). She is an active member of the Breast and CNS Tumor Disease Teams. Her clinic is in the La Jolla within the Moores Cancer Center.

A dedicated basic and translational researcher, her lab focuses on the immunology of triple negative breast cancer. The inaugural Grillo-Marxuach Family Fellow at the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, she completed her post-doctoral training in the NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies in the lab of Daniel Hollern PhD, Division of Applied Sciences.

Dr. Lui is the author/co-author of over 20 original publications, published in a wide variety of prestigious journals in Cancer Research, Cancer, and Breast Cancer Research, focusing on a wide variety of cancers including breast, prostate cancer and head/neck malignancies.