Lawrence Yu, Ph.D., is Deputy Director of the FDA’s Office of Pharmaceutical Quality within the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Yu joined the FDA in 1999. His research interests have centered on the prediction of oral drug delivery and the development of pharmaceutical quality by design. Yu received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering from Zhejiang Institute of Technology, a master’s degree in pharmaceutics from the University of Cincinnati, and a Ph.D. in pharmaceutics from the University of Michigan.