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Alan H.B. Wu is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco, in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant number of publications related to infectious diseases, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and pharmacology.

Their work extensively covers topics such as SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, acute myocardial infarction research, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, COVID-19 clinical research studies, cardiac imaging and diagnostics, COVID-19 impact on reproduction, and clinical laboratory practices and quality control.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Alan H.B. Wu include Kara L. Lynch, Robert H. Christenson, Fred S. Apple, Cassandra Yun, and Chui Mei Ong.

The scientist has published widely in several venues, with the most frequent publication outlets being The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Laboratory Medicine, and Clinica Chimica Acta.

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Alan H.B. Wu are:

  • Race and Genetic Ancestry in Medicine - A Time for Reckoning with Racism (2021), published in New England Journal of Medicine
  • Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 serology assays reveals a range of test performance (2020), published in Nature Biotechnology
  • Test performance evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 serological assays (2020), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Magnitude and Kinetics of Anti-Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Antibody Responses and Their Relationship to Disease Severity (2020), published in Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Sex-Specific 99th Percentile Upper Reference Limits for High Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin Assays Derived Using a Universal Sample Bank (2020), published in Clinical Chemistry

Best Publications

  • Rapid measurement of B-type natriuretic peptide in the emergency diagnosis of heart failure.

    Alan S. Maisel;Padma Krishnaswamy;Richard M. Nowak;James McCord

  • B-type natriuretic peptide and clinical judgment in emergency diagnosis of heart failure: analysis from Breathing Not Properly (BNP) Multinational Study.

    Peter A. McCullough;Richard M. Nowak;James McCord;Judd E. Hollander

  • National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory Medicine Practice Guidelines: clinical characteristics and utilization of biochemical markers in acute coronary syndromes.

    David A. Morrow;Christopher P. Cannon;Robert L. Jesse;L. Kristin Newby

  • National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry Standards of Laboratory Practice: Recommendations for the Use of Cardiac Markers in Coronary Artery Diseases

    Alan H.B. Wu;Fred S. Apple;W. Brian Gibler;Robert L. Jesse

  • Cardiac Troponin and Outcome in Acute Heart Failure

    W. Frank Peacock;Teresa De Marco;Gregg C. Fonarow;Deborah Diercks

  • National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory Medicine Practice Guidelines: Clinical Characteristics and Utilization of Biochemical Markers in Acute Coronary Syndromes

    David A. Morrow;Christopher P. Cannon;Robert L. Jesse

  • Future Biomarkers for Detection of Ischemia and Risk Stratification in Acute Coronary Syndrome

    Fred S. Apple;Alan H.B. Wu;Johannes Mair;Jan Ravkilde

  • B-type natriuretic peptide and renal function in the diagnosis of heart failure: an analysis from the Breathing Not Properly Multinational Study.

    Peter A. McCullough;Philippe Duc;Torbjørn Omland;James McCord

  • Bedside B-Type natriuretic peptide in the emergency diagnosis of heart failure with reduced or preserved ejection fraction: Results from the Breathing Not Properly Multinational Study☆

    Alan S Maisel;James McCord;Richard M Nowak;Judd E Hollander

  • Measurement of the Interleukin Family Member ST2 in Patients With Acute Dyspnea: Results From the PRIDE (Pro-Brain Natriuretic Peptide Investigation of Dyspnea in the Emergency Department) Study

    James L. Januzzi;W. Frank Peacock;Alan S. Maisel;Claudia U. Chae

  • Mid-region pro-hormone markers for diagnosis and prognosis in acute dyspnea : results from the BACH (Biomarkers in Acute Heart Failure) trial

    Alan Maisel;Christian Mueller;Richard Nowak;W. Frank Peacock

  • Characterization of cardiac troponin subunit release into serum after acute myocardial infarction and comparison of assays for troponin T and I

    Alan H. B. Wu;Yue-Jin Feng;Robert Moore;Fred S. Apple

  • Diversity in Clinical and Biomedical Research: A Promise Yet to Be Fulfilled

    Sam S. Oh;Joshua Galanter;Neeta Thakur;Maria Pino-Yanes;Maria Pino-Yanes

  • European Society of Cardiology and American College of Cardiology guidelines for redefinition of myocardial infarction: How to use existing assays clinically and for clinical trials

    Fred S. Apple;Alan H.B. Wu;Alan H.B. Wu;Allan S. Jaffe;Allan S. Jaffe

  • Evaluation of Imprecision for Cardiac Troponin Assays at Low-Range Concentrations

    Mauro Panteghini;Franca Pagani;Kiang-Teck J. Yeo;Fred S. Apple

  • Race and Genetic Ancestry in Medicine - A Time for Reckoning with Racism.

    Luisa N. Borrell;Jennifer R. Elhawary;Elena Fuentes-Afflick;Jonathan Witonsky

  • High-Sensitivity ST2 for Prediction of Adverse Outcomes in Chronic Heart Failure

    Bonnie Ky;Benjamin French;Kristin McCloskey;J. Eduardo Rame

  • Multicenter evaluation of the Roche NT-proBNP assay and comparison to the Biosite Triage BNP assay.

    Kiang-Teck J. Yeo;Alan H.B. Wu;Fred S. Apple;Martin H. Kroll

  • Clinical Laboratory Practice Recommendations for the Use of Cardiac Troponin in Acute Coronary Syndrome: Expert Opinion from the Academy of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry and the Task Force on Clinical Applications of Cardiac Bio-Markers of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine.

    Alan H B Wu;Robert H Christenson;Dina N Greene;Allan S Jaffe

  • A rapid B-type natriuretic peptide assay accurately diagnoses left ventricular dysfunction and heart failure: A multicenter evaluation

    Stacey J. Wieczorek;Alan H.B. Wu;Robert Christenson;Padma Krishnaswamy

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert H. Christenson
Robert H. Christenson University of Maryland, Baltimore
Fred S. Apple
Fred S. Apple University of Minnesota
Alan S. Maisel
Alan S. Maisel University of California, San Diego
Judd E. Hollander
Judd E. Hollander Thomas Jefferson University
Paul Clopton
Paul Clopton Stanford University
Allan S. Jaffe
Allan S. Jaffe Mayo Clinic
William T. Abraham
William T. Abraham The Ohio State University
Torbjørn Omland
Torbjørn Omland Akershus University Hospital
Christian Mueller
Christian Mueller University Hospital of Basel
Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith British Antarctic Survey

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