Kuang-Yu Jen, MD, PhD
Research and Clinical Interests
Medical renal disease, transplantation pathology, computer-guided morphometric analysis, exome sequencing of neoplasms, neoplasms in animal models
Selected Publications
- Jen KY, Cheung VC. Transcriptional response of lymphoblastoid cells to ionizing radiation. Genome Res. 2003 Sep;13(9):2092-100.
- Jen KY, Cheung VG. Identification of novel p53 target genes in ionizing radiation response. Cancer Res. 2005 Sep 1;65(17):7666-73.
- Jen KY, Haragsim L, Laszik ZG. Kidney microvasculature in health and disease. Contrib Nephrol. 2011;169:51-72.
- Jen KY, Nguyen TB, Vincenti FG, Laszik ZG. C4d/CD34 double-immunofluorescence staining of renal allograft biopsies for assessing peritubular capillary C4d positivity. Mod Pathol. 2012 Mar;25(3):434-8.
- Jen KY, Song IY, Banta KL, Wu D, Mao JH, Balmain A. Sequential mutations in Notch1, Fbxw7 and Tp53 in radiation-induced mouse thymic lymphomas. Blood. 2012 Jan 19;119(3):805-9.
- Jen KY, Olson JL, Brodsky S, Zhou XJ, Nadasdy T, Laszik ZG. Reliability of whole slide images as a diagnostic modality for renal allograft biopsies. Human Pathology. 2012. In press.
Selected Awards
- 2006: John Glick Cancer Center Clinical Translational Research Prize
- 2009: California Breast Cancer Research Program Fellowship Award
- 2011: Resident Teaching Award, Department of Pathology, University of California, San  Francisco
Additional Information
- Assistant Professor
- Pathology
- Renal Pathology
Specialty Area
Renal pathology, transplant pathology
Contact Information
- kuangyujen@
ucsf.edu - Phone: 415-353-8117
- Pager: 415-443-3208
- Fax: 415-514-3403
- University of California, San Francisco
- Department of Pathology
- 513 Parnassus Avenue
- Room S-570, Box 0102
- San Francisco, CA 94143-0102
Hospital Affiliation(s)
- UCSF Medical Center
- UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
- San Francisco General Hospital