  Heavy flavor production is important in heavy ion collisions to study both
cold and hot nuclear matter effects. The LHCb experiment can make unique
contribution to heavy ion physics, owing to the full particle identification of
the detector in the forward region and the ability to collect fixed target data
with proton or lead beams. This report describes recent results with
proton-lead collision data collected in 2013 and the prospect of heavy-ion
studies at LHCb.
