Alan Wu

Dr. Wu is a Professor of Laboratory Medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine and is the chief of the clinical chemistry and toxicology laboratories at San Francisco General Hospital. In this capacity, his clinical and research laboratory conducts testing for routine analytes in blood, urine and cerebral spinal fluid for electrolytes, metabolites, hormones, proteins, and biomarkers.

His particular area of interest is in cardiac biomarkers for acute cardiac diseases (troponin, B-type natriuretic peptide, and novel biomarkers of ACS and heart failure). He has been expanding his work in biomarkers in Brain Injury over the past 2 years as well. An additional primary area of research is focused on “personalized therapeutics,” i.e., the use of biomarkers to determine the proper selection and dosing of drugs to maximize efficacy and minimize adverse reactions. His research lab also conducts research on point-of-care testing devices.