Minshu Yu, Ph.D. - Biologist

Dr. Yu received his Ph.D. in 1986 from Fudan University of China. His postdoctoral studies began at Los Alamos National Laboratory and continued at the University of New Mexico. He came to the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases in NIAID, NIH as a senior staff fellow in 1993. In 1998, he joined the Chemical Carcinogenesis Section in the Laboratory of Experimental Carcinogenesis as a biologist. He has expertise in the molecular and cellular biology of the hepatitis B virus. He discovered a regulatory mechanism of viral DNA synthesis by phosphorylation of core protein of duck hepatitis B virus. Currently his work focuses on the molecular analysis of heterocyclic amine-induced rat mammary gland carcinogenesis. He recently demonstrated genomic imbalance in rat mammary gland carcinomas induced by a specific heterocyclic amine, PhIP. He is currently studying the genomic alterations during the development of mammary gland cancer.