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Yan Yun Wu, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine
Assistant Director, Apheresis/Transfusion Service
Assistant Director, Blood Bank

Office: CB-459
Phone: 203-688-2441 or 203-688-7326
Fax: 203-688-2748
Email: yan.wu@yale.edu

B.M., 1987, Beijing Medical University
Ph.D., 1996, Tulane Univesity
Fellowship: Clinical Chemistry, 1999, National Institutes of Health
Residency: Clinical Pathology, 2001, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Fellowship: Transfusion Medicine, 2002, Yale-New Haven Hospital

Research Interests
Current research interests include pathogen reduction, clinical apheresis and evaluation of clinical response of patients to pheresis interventions for a variety of immunologic disorders, pathophysiology of transfusion reactions, and transfusion support for oncological patients, particularly in ABO mismatched allogeneic transplantation and platelet alloimmunization.

References

1. Wu Y, Snyder EL. Case study: Febrile transfusion reaction. In: Rossi's Principles of Transfusion Medicine, 3rd edition. Snyder EL, Dzik WH, Strauss RG, Simon TL, Stowell CP (eds). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA, 2002.
2. Wu Y, Calhoun B, Snyder EL. Case study: Hematopoietic stem cell infusion reaction. In: Rossi's Principles of Transfusion Medicine, 3rd edition. Snyder EL, Dzik WH, Strauss RG, Simon TL, Stowell CP (eds). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA, 2002.
3. Wu Y, Delgado RM, Sunderland T, Csako G. Semi-automated PCR-single-strand conformation polymorphism method for detection of a novel sequence polymorphism (Ile1000Val) in human alpha(2)-macroglobulin. Clin. Chem. 715-718, 2000.
4. Wu Y, Delgado R, Costello R, Sunderland T, Dukoff R, Csako G. Quantitative assessment of apolipoprotein E genotypes by image analysis of PCR-RFLP fragments. Clin. Chim. Acta. 293:213-221, 2000.
5. Wu Y, Hruszkewycz AM, Delgado RM, Yang A, Vortmeyer AO, Moon YW, Weil RJ, Zhuang Z, Remaley AT. Limitations on the quantitative determination of telomerase activity by the electrophoretic and ELISA based TRAP assays. Clin. Chim. Acta. 293:199-212, 2000.
6. Wu Y, Delgado RM, Sunderland T, Csako G. Detection of a deletion polymorphism of the human alpha(2)-macroglobulin gene (A2M-2) by a semi-automated PCR-single-stranded conformational polymorphism method. Clin. Chem. 45:1572-1573, 1999.
7. Weil RJ,* Wu Y,* Vortmeyer AO, Moon Y-W, Delgado RM, Fuller BG, Lonser RR, Remaley AT, Zhuang Z (*equal contribution). Telomerase activity in microdissected human gliomas. Mod. Pathol. 12:41-46, 1999.