Nicholas Wu is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Virginia in 2010 and his PhD in Molecular Biology from UCLA in 2015. Nicholas completed his postdoctoral training at the Scripps Research Institute as a Croucher Fellow. Nicholas started his own lab in Illinois in 2020. 

Research in the Wu lab focuses on virus-antibody interactions using a combination of high-throughput screening, structural biology, and machine learning approaches. The long-term goal is to understand the sequence-function relationship of antibodies and leverage this information for vaccine design and antibody engineering. His research has been recognized by multiple awards, including the NIH New Innovator Award, the Searle Scholar Award, and the Michelson Prize for Human Immunology and Vaccine Research. 

The Wu Lab