He currently is also a faculty member in the Nanobiotechnology Center, the Cornell Center for Materials Research, the Kavli Institute for Nanoscale Science, and the Biomedical Engineering and New Life Science Initiatives at Cornell. Luo obtained his BS degree in biology in 1989 from the University of Science and Technology of China. He received his PhD in 1997 from the Ohio State University in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. After postdoctoral training in the School of Chemical Engineering at Cornell, he joined Cornell faculty in 2001. Luo is an associate editor for the Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, and editorial board member of Nanomedicine and Nano Today. Luo was awarded the National Science Foundation's CAREER award in 2006 and the Cornell Provost's Award for Distinguished Scholarship in 2007.