President 2025
Dujuan Lu
Dr. Dujuan Lu is the president (2025) of the East Chapter of the Chinese American Chemical Society (E-CACS). She has been actively joining and volunteering at CACS events since 2012 when she was working in the Greater Chicago area, and then actively participating in Tri-state CACS (now named East CACS) events since 2016. She is a life member of CACS and has been serving as the executive board member for E-CACS since Jan 2022. She has also won the CACS Rising Start Award in 2023.
Dr. Lu obtained her BS in Chemistry from Nanjing University and PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh. Since 2015, she serves as the head of the extractables and leachables (E&L) team at the SGS Health Science, a world-leading GMP-accredited Contract Research Organization. Prior to joining SGS, she worked at Fresenius Kabi as a research scientist, leading E&L projects to support transfusion and infusion medical device and parenteral products. She has extensive CRO and pharmaceutical/medical device industry experience with more than 1000 E&L projects on a broad range of packaging systems, including process materials, pharmaceutical finished packaging, and medical devices. As a subject matter expert in the E&L field, she is frequently presenting at various conferences as invited speakers and technical session chairs with over 50 international conference presentations, including AAPS, CPhI, E&L USA, E&L Summit, Pittcon, ASMS, etc.. She was named one of the top 60 most influential people working in the pharmaceutical industry in the Medicine Maker’s 2020 power list.