Professor Tom Lue University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
Professor Tom Lue graduated with highest honors from Kaohsiung Medical College in Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1972. After completing his urology residency at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York, USA, he received a Valentine Fellowship from the New York Academy of Medicine to study neurourology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in California, USA. He is now Professor of Urology at UCSF, where he is also the Emil Tanagho Endowed Chair in Clinical Urology, and the founder and medical director of the Knuppe Molecular Urology Laboratory.
Professor Lue is a recipient of the NIH MERIT Award for his translational research in penile physiology and erectile dysfunction. His team discovered the anatomical mechanism of venous compression during penile erection, proved that PDE5 inhibition enhanced penile erection in animal experiments, published the first article implicating TGF-beta in the formation of Peyronie’s plaque, and developed the animal models for the study of various types of ED, Peyronie’s disease, over/under active bladder and stress urinary incontinence. Professor Lue has developed four diagnostic tests for erectile dysfunction, eight new surgical procedures for Peyronie’s disease, priapism and erectile dysfunction.
Professor Lue's current basic science research projects involve the development of a non-invasive progenitor cell therapy for various diseases including erectile dysfunction, overactive/underactive bladder and other degenerative diseases. He has published more than 450 peer-reviewed articles and more than 100 book chapters. Professor Lue’s research team has trained more than 70 postgraduate doctors from many countries.
Professor Lue has been the recipient of the American Urological Association's Gold Cystoscope Award, John K. Lattimer Award and Lecturer, and the Presidential Citation as well as the American Foundation of Urological diseases’ Most Innovative Researcher Award. He was awarded Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science by the State University of New York. He is the recipient of the Ferdinand C. Valentine Medal from the New York Academy of Medicine. He is an honorary member of the Urological Association of Asia and the Chinese Urological Association. He chaired the International Consultation on Sexual Medicine held in Paris in July 2003, serving as the lead author of its published proceedings and the honorary president of the same meeting in Paris in July 2009. He is currently the president of the World Chinese Urological Society at American Urological Association.
Besides being listed in the Best Doctors in America and America’s Top Doctors for many years, Professor Lue was named one of the 8 top doctors for men by Men’s Health Magazine in 2003.