Laboratory Medicine Research Programs
The UCSF Department of Laboratory Medicine is consistently ranked among the top academic research programs in Clinical Pathology and advanced diagnostic technologies at the national and international levels. The Department emphasizes both basic science and translational research across multiple disciplines with laboratories funded through NIH grants, research foundations, and collaborations with industry. The faculty are integrated with a variety of UCSF graduate programs as well as specialized research institutes, clinical and translational research enterprises, and state of-the-art programs ranging from advanced genome diagnostics and pharmacogenomics to stem cell biology and beyond.
Major Research Themes
Hematology/Stem Cell Biology
- Scott C. Kogan, MD
- Leukemia pathogenesis, mouse models
- Andrew D. Leavitt, MD
- Hematopoiesis and hematopoietic stem cells
Transfusion Medicine
- Michael P. Busch, MD, PhD
- Blood safety, transfusion complications
- Pearl Toy, MD
- Transfusion related lung injury
Immunology
- Gary A. Jarvis, PhD
- Immune response to gram-negative infection
- Clifford A. Lowell, MD, PhD
- Innate immune cell signal transduction
- Michael S. McGrath, MD
- Macrophage biology
- Philip J. Norris, MD
- Immune response to viral infection
Cancer Genetics
- Donna G. Albertson, PhD
- Genomics of oral/facial cancer
- Daniel Pinkel, PhD
- Genomics of skin and breast cancer
- Frederic Waldman, MD, PhD
- Genomics of breast and urologic cancer
Infectious Diseases
- Edward L. Murphy, MD, MPH
- Epidemiology of transfusion related infections
- Lynn Pulliam M.S., PhD
- HIV related neurologic disease
Metabolic Disorders
- Farid F. Chehab, PhD
- Adipocyte signaling mechanisms
- Theodore W. Kurtz, MD
- Genetics of hypertension
- Alan H.B. Wu, PhD
- Pharmacogenomics and toxicology