Paul Yu

Dr. Paul Yu is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Physician in Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Dr. Yu completed his A.B. in Philosophy and a B.S. in Biological Sciences at Stanford University, M.D. and Ph.D. (Immunology) degrees at Duke University. He completed residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, clinical and research fellowships in Cardiovascular Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital, and is board certified in Cardiovascular Medicine. Dr. Yu’s laboratory studies the function of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling in development, and in vascular and musculoskeletal disease. The main focus of his laboratory’s work is to discern how BMP/TGF-β signaling achieves spatio-temporal and functional specificity, and modulates the tissue-specific consequences of inflammation and injury.